ZONE  THERAPY, 

"     — — >  * 

OR 

RELIEVING  PAIN  AND  DISEASE 


BY 
H.  FI 


WMt  H.  FITZGERALD,  M.  D. 

AND 

EDWIN   F.  BOWERS,  M.  D. 

Author  of  •'  Side  Stepping  111  Health  " 
Alcohol  —  Its  Influence  on   Mind  and  Body,"  "Bathing  for  Health,"  etc. 


HARTFORD,  CONN : 

M.  C.  HILLERY,  Publish,- 

SECOND  EDITION 

1919 


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COPYRIGHT,  1919 

BY 
M.  C.  HILLERY 


CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER  I.  PAGE 

Relieving  Pain  by  Pressure 15 

CHAPTER  II. 
That  Aching  Head 23 

CHAPTER  III. 
Curing  Goitre  With  a  Probe 31 

CHAPTER  IV. 
Finger  Pressures  for  Eye  Troubles 42 

CHAPTER  V. 
Making  the  Deaf  Hear 49 

CHAPTER  VI. 
Painless  Child  Birth 58 

CHAPTER  VII. 
Zone  Therapy  for  Women 73 

CHAPTER  VIII. 
Relaxing   Nervous   Tension 80 

CHAPTER  IX. 
Curing  Lumbago   with   a   Comb 90 

(3) 


4  CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER  X.  PAGE 

Scratching  the  Hand  for  Sick  Stomach 101 

CHAPTER  XL 
Hay  Fever,  Asthma  and  Tonsillitis 108 

CHAPTER  XII. 
Curing  a  Sick  Voice 117 

CHAPTER  XIII. 
A  Specific  for  Whooping  and  Other  Couj 127 

CHAPTER  XIV. 
How  a  Phantom  Tumor  was  Dissipated 134 

CHAPTER  XV. 
Dr.   White's  Experience 138 

CHAPTER  XVI. 
Zone  Therapy  —  for  Dentists 144 

CHAPTER  XVII. 
Zone  Therapy  —  for  Doctors 167 

CHAPTER  XVIII. 
Food    for    Thought » . . . .      187 

CHAPTER  XIX. 
Key  to  Zone  Therapy  and  Therapeutic  Index.  .  .      193 


L 

INTRODUCTION 


THOUSANDS  of  lives  are  lost  annually 
from  diseases  which  could  have  been 
prevented.  Hundreds  of  thousands, 
because  of  some  preventable  ailment,  which 
partially  or  totally  incapacitates  them,  are  today 
living  only  a  small  part  of  their  lives.  Millions 
of  dollars  yearly  are  squandered  on  medicines, 
and  undertakers  —  much  of  which  might  have 
been  saved  by  a  right  knowledge  of  the  laws  of 
health  and  hygiene. 

Even  among  the  comfortably  situated,  or  even 
well-to-do,  robust,  vigorous  health  is  the  rarest 
of  possessions.  The  most  rugged-looking,  on 
being  closely  and  sympathetically  catechised,  will 
admit  to  a  "touch  of  rheumatism";  a  chronic 
stomach,  liver,  or  kidney  trouble;  nervousness, 
headaches,  neuralgia,  constipation,  or  something 
that  tends  to  prevent  his  attaining  completest 
physical  power  and  mental  efficiency.  And  the 
weaker  sex  more  than  justify  their  descriptive 
adjective.  For  80%  of  those  not  directly  under 
a  physician's  care,  or  taking  some  medicine  or 
form  of  treatment  for  something,  should  be. 

Conditions  are  improving,  however.  There 
is  a  dawn  of  hope  for  humanity.  For  good 

(5) 


6  INTRODUCTION. 

health  is  being  made  a  fetish.  It  is  becoming  a 
gospel  —  a  gospel  preached  in  schools,  news- 
papers, magazines,  churches  and  theatres.  Ac- 
curate knowledge  concerning  sanitation,  sex- 
ology, food,  clothing,  exercise,  sleeping,  resting, 
and  all  hygienic  measures,  is  becoming  more  and 
more  widely  disseminated. 

Humanity  is  awakening  to  the  fact  that  sick- 
ness, in  a  large  percentage  of  cases,  is  an  error 
—  of  body  and  mind.  Ignorance  of  the  injur- 
ious effects  of  wrong  foods,  drinks,  habits  and 
methods  is  gradually  being  overcome. 

Foremost  among  those  engaged  in  educating 
the  public  away  from  paths  of  ignorance,  and 
the  disastrous  consequences  of  this  ignorance,  is 
the  medical  fraternity.  The  noblest  and  most 
self-sacrificing  profession  on  earth  is  the  one 
most  industriously  engaged  in  sawing  the  branch 
between  itself  and  the  tree  of  Financial  Gain. 
The  doctor  is  the  philanthropist  most  impres- 
sively employed  in  killing  the  geese  that  lay  his 
golden  eggs  with  one  hand,  while  he  cuts  his 
pocket-book's  jugular  vein  with  the  other. 

For  he  catches  and  segregates  —  constructing 
prisons  for  them,  if  necessary  —  all  cases,  —  or 
even  suspected  cases  —  of  contagious  disease,  - 
disease  which,  if  permitted  to  spread  broadcast, 
would  net  him  a  horde  of  ducats. 


INTRODUCTION.  7 

He  sees  to  it  that  no  infectious  disorders  are 
imported  into  the  country  —  the  spreading  of 
which  would  give  him  much  practice.  He  traces 
every  typhoid  case  to  its  ultimate  dirty  barn,  or 
infected  water  supply,  and  counts  that  day  well 
spent  \vhose  low  declining  sun  has  seen  him 
stamp  out  a  possible  typhoid  epidemic  at  its 
source 

He  vaccinates  all  —  willing  and  unwilling  — 
lest  he  be  kept  horribly  busy  attending  a  huge 
army  of  small-pox  patients. 

He  instructs  gluttons,  and  others,  as  to  the 
grave  dangers  of  overeating,  or  of  eating  the 
right  food  at  the  wrong  time. 

He  teaches  mothers  to  sterilize  their  babies' 
bottles,  and  thereby  keep  the  bugs  of  war  at  bay. 

He  thunders  against  exposure,  against  spitting 
in  or  on  public  places ;  he  has  Health  Ordinances 
passed,  covering  every  conceivable  method 
whereby  disease  might  develop. 

Untiringly  and  without  intermission  —  ex- 
cept during  a  few  of  the  worst  blizzards  —  he 
inculcates  the  doctrines  of  flies,  in  their  relation 
to  fingers  and  filth,  and  hurls  Phillipics  against 
mosquitoes,  ticks,  and  the  insect  world  generally 
-  not  forgetting  bed-bugs,  lice,  and  other 
disease-breeding  vermin. 

He  extols  the  benefits  of  bathing,  the  rich  re- 


8  INTRODUCTION. 

wards  of  fresh  air,  exercise,  and  the  relief  of 
constipation. 

In  fact,  he  takes  pride  in  doing  all  that  within 
him  lies,  in  order  to  teach  the  world  to  do  without 
him. 

Thanks  to  doctors,  we  are  learning  about 
plumbing  and  posture,  mastication  and  measles, 
outdoors,  deep  breathing,  poisons  and  poise.  We 
are  finding  out  what  bad  teeth  do  to  good  healih, 
how  to  work,  play  and  sleep  so  as  to  get  the 
greatest  physical  good  from  each. 

We  are  warned  against  overweight,  alcohol, 
common  colds  and  tobacco,  and  the  evil  possibil- 
ities in  marrying  one's  cousin  —  or  some  one 
else's  cousin  who  has,  or  has  had,  syphilis,  feeble- 
mindedness, a  drunken  ancestry,  epilepsy,  or 
some  tendency  to  "hark  back"  and  ' 'revert  to 
type"  —  as  did  Mendel's  beans,  or  the  black 
Andalusian  pullets. 

The  subject  of  life  and  health  conservation  is 
"in  the  air."  Only  recently  a  president  of  th.- 
American  Medical  Association  made  this  theme 
the  subject  of  his  inaugural  address.  Hardly  a 
medical  journal  but  has  one  or  more  articles  de- 
voted to  it  in  each  issue.  We  are  being  speci- 
fically instructed  in  how  to  avoid  disease. 

Now,  however,  we  are  to  learn  how,  in  many 
instances,  diseases,  many  of  them  most  grave  and 


INTRODUCTION.  9 

life-shortening,  may  be  cured.  This,  by  meas- 
ures which  conflict  with  no  other  form  of  treat- 
ment, and  so  simple  as  almost  to  appear  ridicul- 
ous. For  Dr.  William  H.  FitzGerald,  the  dis- 
coverer of  zone  therapy,  is  to  tell  us  how  he 
instructs  his  patients,  under  his  guidance  and 
direction,  to  cure  themselves. 

Dr.  FitzGerald  is  to  give  us  specific  details  of 
one  of  the  most  wonderful  and  perplexing  things 
connected  with  the  art  of  medicine.  This,  be- 
cause a  physician's  premise  is  to  teach  —  as  well 
as  heal.  Because  publicity  concerning  the  pre- 
vention and  cure  of  disease  is  a  duty  he  owes 
mankind:  not  as  an  altruist,  but  as  a  human 
being. 

EDWIN  F.  BOWERS,  M.  D. 

Sept.  1,  1916. 


PUBLISHERS'  NOTE. 


MANY  of  the  chapters  comprising  this 
book  were   first  published  as  special 
articles  in   ''Everybody's   Magazine", 
"The  Strand"   (England),  " Associated  Sunday 
Magazines",  and  in  "Every  Week".    Accompany- 
ing the  introductory  article  in  "Every  Week" 
was  this  comment  by  Mr.  Bruce  Barton,  the  able 
and  critical  editor  of  this  magazine.    It  explains 
itself : 

"For  almost  a  year  Dr.  Bowers  has  been 
urging  me  to  publish  this  article  on  Dr.  Fitz- 
Gerald's  remarkable  system  of  healing,  known  as 
zone  therapy.  Frankly,  I  could  not  believe  what 
was  claimed  for  zone  therapy,  nor  did  I  think 
that  we  could  get  magazine  readers  to  believe  it. 
Finally,  a  few  months  ago,  I  went  to  Hartford 
unannounced,  and  spent  a  day  in  Dr.  Fitz- 
Gerald's  offices.  I  saw  patients  who  had  been 
cured  of  goiter;  I  saw  throat  and  ear  troubles 
immediately  relieved  by  zone  therapy;  I  saw  a 
nasal  operation  performed  without  any  anesthetic 
whatever ;  and  —  in  a  dentist's  office  —  teeth  ex- 
tracted without  any  anesthetic  except  the  anal- 

(11) 


12  PUBLISHERS'  NOTE. 

gesic  influence  of  zone  therapy.  Afterward  I 
wrote  to  about  fifty  practising  physicians  in 
various  parts  of  the  country  who  have  heard  of 
zone  therapy  and  are  using  it  for  the  relief  of 
all  kinds  of  cases,  even  to  allay  the  pains  of 
childbirth.  Their  letters  are  on  file  in  my  office. 

This  first  article  will  be  followed  by  a  number 
of  others  in  which  Dr.  JBowers  will  explain  the 
application  of  zone  therapy  to  the  various  com- 
mon ailments.  I  anticipate  criticism  regarding 
these  articles  from  two  sources:  first,  from  a 
small  percentage  of  physicians;  second,  from 
people  who  will  attempt  to  use  zone  therapy  with- 
out success.  We  have  considered  this  criticism 
in  advance,  and  are  prepared  to  disregard  it.  If 
the  articles  serve  to  reduce  the  sufferings  of 
people  in  dentists'  chairs  even  ten  per  cent.,  if 
they  will  help  in  even  the  slightest  way  to  relieve 
the  common  pains  of  every-day  life,  they  will  be 
amply  justified. 

We  do  not  know  the  full  explanation  of  zone 
therapy;  but  we  do  know  that  a  great  many 
people  have  been  helped  by  it,  and  that  nobody 
can  possibly  be  harmed." 

THE  EDITOR. 


FIG.  1. 

Oiagram  of  Anterior  Zones   on   one   side   of   the   body. 

Both  right  and   'eft  sides  of  the  body  are   the   same. 

Each  numbered  line  represents  the  center  of  its  respective  zone  on 
the  anterior  part  of  the  body. 

The  tongue,  hard  and  soft  palate,  nose,  posterior  wall  of  the  naso- 
pharynx and  oropharynx,  and  the  generative  organs  are  in  ten  zones, 
five  on  each  side  o_f  the  median  line. 

The  middle  ear  is  in  Zones  4   and  5. 

The  eustachian  tube  and  middle  ear  combined  are  in  Zones  2,  3, 
4  and  5. 

The  upper   surface   of  the  tongue  is  in  the  anterior  zones. 

The  teeth  are  in  the  respective  zones  as  indicated  by  passing  a  line 
antero-posteriorly  thru  the  respective  zones. 

The  viscera  are  in  the  zones  as  represented  by  a  line  passed  antero- 
posteriorly  thru  the  respective  zones. 

(13) 


Diagram  of  Posterior  Zones  on  one  side  of  the  body. 
Both  right  and  left  sides  of  the  body  are  the  same. 
Each  numbered    line    represents    the    center  of  its  respective 
zone  on  the  posterior  part  of  the  body. 

The  under  surface  of  the  tongue  is  in  the  posterior  tone. 

FIG.  2.  —  Posterior  view,  illustrating  individual  zones.  It  will  be  ob- 
served that  what  is  commonly  called  the  back  of  the  hand  is  really  the 
front  of  that  member,  whereas  the  palm  of  the  hand  corresponds  to  the 
sole  of  the  foot. 

(14) 


CHAPTER  I. 

RELIEVING  PAIN  BY  PRESSURE. 

NO  illustrator  would  ever  think  of  draw- 
ing a  picture  of  a  boy  with  a  green- 
apple  colic,  unless  he  represented  that 
boy  with  both  hands  clasped  fervently  over  the 
seat  of  war.  Nor  would  he  picture  a  pain  any- 
where else,  without  showing  the  attempts  made 
to  relieve  this  pain.  For  no  one  would  believe 
his  illustrations,  if  he  omitted  these  details. 

Now,  while  we  know  the  fact  of  pain  relief, 
through  laying  on  of  the  hands,  or  by  kindred 
measures,  we  know  only  a  part  of  its  reason 
for  operation.  There  are  several  of  these. 
They  are,  first,  the  soothing  influence  of  animal 
magnetism,  experienced  when  we  tenderly,  if  not 
lovingly,  rub  the  bump,  accumulated  in  the  dark 
of  the  moon,  by  collision  with  a  tall  brunette 
side-board,  or  a  door  carelessly  left  ajar.  It 
does  soothe.  This  we  know. 

Next,  the  manipulation  of  the  hand  over  the 
injured  place  tends  to  prevent  a  condition  of 
venous  stasis  —  a  state  in  which  the  injured  sur- 
face veins  dam  back  the  flow  of  blood,  and  pro- 

(15) 


16  ZONE    THERAPY. 

duce  that  lurid  discoloration  known  euphoneously 
as  "black  and  blue." 

Also,  pressure  applied  over  the  seat  of  injury 
produces  what  Dr.  George  W.  Crile,  of  Cleve- 
land, calls  "blocked  shock,"  or  "nerve  block/' 
which  means  that  by  pressing  on  the  nerves  run- 
ning from  the  injured  part  to  the  brain  area  we 
inhibit  or  prevent  the  transmission  to  the  brain 
the  knowledge  of  injury.  In  other  words,  the 
hurt  place  can't  tell  the  central  telegraph  station 
anything  about  the  accident,  because  the  wires 
are  down. 

Dr.  Crile,  and  surgeons  generally,  now  utilize 
this  knowledge  to  prevent  shock  during  oper- 
ations, by  injecting  cocain,  or  some  anesthetic 
solution  around  the  course  of  the  nerve  trunk 
leading  from  the  place  to  be  operated  upon  to 
the  brain. 

But  there  is  yet  another  reason,  which  we 
have  found  out  only  yesterday.  And  this  is  zone 
analgesia.  Pressure  over  any  bony  eminence  in- 
jured, or  pressure  applied  upon  the  zones  corre- 
sponding to  the  location  of  the  injury,  will  tend 
to  relieve  pain. 

And  not  only  will  it  relieve  pain,  but  if  the 
pressure  is  strong  enough  and  long  enough  it 
will  frequently  produce  an  analgesia,  or  insensi- 
bility to  pain,  or  even  a  condition  of  anesthesia 


RELIEVING   PAIN   BY   PRESSURE.  17 

—  in  which  minor  surgical  operations  may  be 
successfully  done. 

This,  of  course,  is  not  an  infallible  or  in- 
variable result.  Specialists  in  zone  therapy  have 
found  pressure  effective  in  obliterating  sensation 
in  about  65%  of  cases;  while  it  will  deaden  pain, 
or  make  it  more  bearable,  in  more  than  98%. 

In  the  hands  of  many  who  have  tried  these 
methods  the  percentage  often  is  much  lower  — 
because  they  haven't  learned  how  to  apply  it. 
For  if  the  operator  doesn't  "hit"  the  proper  areas 
or  focal  points  he  misses  them  completely  —  and 
also  misses  results. 

In  attempting  the  relief  of  pain  by  "working"' 
from  the  fingers  it  should  also  be  emphasized 
that  it  makes  a  difference,  too,  whether  the  upper 
and  lower  or  the  side  surfaces  of  the  joint  are 
pressed.  A  physician  experimenting  with  the 
method  was  ready  to  condemn  it  because  he  was 
unable  to  relieve  a  patient  who  complained  of 
rheumatic  pains  which  centered  on  the  outer  side 
of  the  ankle-bone.  The  doctor  grasped  the  sec- 
ond joint  of  the  patient's  right  little  finger  and 
pressed  firmly  for  a  minute  on  the  top  and  bottom 
of  the  joint.  (See  Fig.  3.)  The  pain  persisted, 
and  the  doctor  jeered  at  the  method. 

A  disciple  of  zone  therapy  smiled,  and  sug- 
gested that  while  the  doctor  had  the  right  finger, 
2 


18 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


To  make  lateral  pressure  change  the  grip  so  that  pressure  is  exerted  on 
to  the  finger  joint. 

To  make  lateral  pressure  change  the  grip  so  that  pressure  is  exerted  on 
the/,  sides  of  the  finger. 


RELIEVING   PAIN   BY   PRESSURE.  19 

he  had  the  right  finger  in  the  wrong  grip.  The 
doctor  was  advised  to  press  the  sides  of  the 
finger  instead  of  the  top  and  bottom.  This  was 
done,  and  the  pain  disappeared  in  two  minutes. 

This  pressure  therapy  has  an  advantage  over 
any  other  method  of  pain  relief,  inasmuch  as  it 
has  been  proved  that,  in  contradistinction  to 
opiates,  when  zone  pressure  relieves  pain  it  like- 
wise tends  to  remove  the  cause  of  the  pain,  no 
matter  where  this  cause  originates.  And  this 
in  conditions  where  seemingly  one  would  not 
expect  to  secure  any  therapeutic,  or  curative, 
results. 

For  instance,  I  recall  a  case  of  breast  tumor, 
with  two  fairly  good-sized  nodes,  as  large  as 
horse  chestnuts.  This  lady  had  made  arrange- 
ments to  be  operated  upon  by  a  prominent  sur- 
geon in  Hartford,  but  had  postponed  her  opera- 
tion a  few  weeks  on  account  of  the  holidays. 

Meantime  she  had  been  instructed  to  make 
pressures  with  a  tongue  depressor  and  with 
elastic  bands  for  relief  of  the  breast  pain  — 
which  relief,  by  the  way,  was  quite  complete. 
After  a  few  weeks,  this  lady  returned  to  her  sur- 
geon for  further  examination  and  to  complete 
arrangements  for  operation.  Upon  examining, 
however,  the  surgeon  found  the  growth  so  re- 
duced in  size  that  he  expressed  himself  as  un- 


20  ZONE    THERAPY. 

willing  to  operate,  as  he  saw  no  necessity  for 
operating.  The  tumor  has  since  completely  dis- 
appeared —  under  these  tongue  pressure  treat- 
ments, and  many  such  cases  have  been  treated 
successfully  since. 

A  small  uterine  fibroid  made  a  similar  happy 
exit,  as  a  result  of  pressures  made  on  the  floor 
of  the  mouth,  directly  under  the  center  of  the 
tongue.  This  patient  next  made  a  regular  prac- 
tice of  squeezing  the  joints  of  her  thumb,  first 
and  second  finger,  whenever  she  had  nothing  else 
important  to  do.  And  the  result  infinitely  more 
than  justified  the  means. 

Lymphatic  enlargements,  as  painful  glands  in 
the  neck,  arm-pits,  or  groin,  yield  even  more 
rapidly  to  this  zone  pressure  than  do  tumors. 
And  while  no  claims  are  made  to  the  effect  that 
cancer  can  be  cured  by  zone  therapy,  yet  there 
are  many  cases  in  which  pain  has  been  com- 
pletely relieved,  and  the  patients  freed  from  the 
further  necessity  of  resorting  to  opiates.  And 
in  a  few  cases  the  growths  have  also  entirely 
disappeared. 

The  growth  of  interest  in  this  work  is  most 
encouraging.  Dr.  FitzGerald  and  other  phy- 
sicians using  zone  therapy  in  their  practice,  have 
had  scores  of  letters  from  patients  they  have 
never  even  seen,  but  who  have  written,  express- 


RELIEVING  PAIN  BY  PRESSURE. 


21 


KlG.  4.  —  Patient  with  fracture  at  elbow  had  been  unable  to  sleep 
since  accident.  He  was  in  constant  pain  and  said  the  only  relief  he  could 
get  was  in  walking.  His  arm 'was  still  in  splints  when  he  came  to  me  and 
asked  if  I  thought  I  could  relieve  his  pain,  on  assuring  me  that  his  surgeon 
would  be  pleased  if  I  did.  I  placed  the  Therapy  Zones  on  thumb  and  all 
ringers  as  depicted  above  (this  cut  was  made  some  days  after)  and  in 
twenty  minutes  his  pain  had  entirely  disappeared.  Patient  controlled 
pain  thereafter  in  this  way.  A  few  minutes  of  zone  pressure  gave  hisa 
two  hours'  freedom  from  pain. 

See  page  196   for  description   of  Therapy  Zones. 


22  ZONE   THERAPY. 

ing  their  appreciation  for  the  relief  secured 
through  instructions  from  some  of  their  patients, 
or  through  following  out  some  suggestion  from 
my  articles  in  the  magazines. 

I  have  reason  to  believe  that  there  are  now 
several  hundred  physicians,  osteopaths  and 
dentists,  using  these  methods  every  day,  with 
complete  satisfaction  to  themselves  and  to  their 
patients. 

Arid  the  number  of  laymen,  and  especially  lay- 
women,  who  are  preaching  the  doctrine  in  their 
own  '  households,  and  among  their  circle  of 
friends,  must  be  legion.  The  adoption  of  the 
method  is  attended  with  absolutely  no  danger  or 
disagreeable  results,  and  may  be  the  means  of 
lengthening  short  lives  and  making  good  health 
catching.  I,  for  one,  hope  that  the  numbers  of 
those  who  may  be  inclined  to  learn  and  practice 
these  methods  upon  themselves  and  upon  the 
members  of  their  families  may  ever  increase  and 
multiply.  For  this  is  a  big  idea,  and  a  helpful 
one.  Therefore,  the  more  who  make  it  their 
own  the  better  for  the  human  race. 


CHAPTER  II. 

THAT   ACHING    HEAD. 

THE  next  time  you  have  a  headache,  in- 
stead of  attempting  to  paralyze  the 
nerves  of  sensation  with  an  opiate,  or  a 
coal  tar  "pain-deadener,"  push  the  headache  out 
through  the  top  of  the  head.  It's  surprisingly 
easy. 

It  merely  requires  that  you  press  your  thumb 
-  or,  better  still,  some  smooth,  broad  metal  sur- 
face (See  Fig.  5),  as  the  end  of  a  knife-handle 
• —  firmly  against  the  roof  of  the  mouth,  as  nearly 
as  possible  under  the  battleground  —  and  hold  it 
there  for  from  three  to  five  minutes  —  by  the 
watch.  It  may  be  necessary,  if  the  ache  is  ex- 
tensive, to  'shift  the  position  of  the  thumb  or 
metal  "applicator"  so  as  to  "cover"  completely 
the  area  that  aches. 

Headaches  and  neuralgias,  of  purely  nervous 
origin,  not  due  to  poison  from  toxic  absorption 
from  the  bowels,  or  to  constipation,  or  alcohol- 
ism, tumors,  eye-strain,  or  some  specific  organic 
cause,  usually  subside  under  this  pressure  within 
a  few  minutes. 

Tis  as  easy  as  lying.     Many  patients  cure 

(23) 


24 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


KIQ.     5.  —  Palate-pressor     Electrode     may     be     used     with     or     without 
electricity. 


THAT  ACHING  HEAD.  25 

their  own  or  their  friend's  and  relative's  head- 
aches or  neuralgic  attacks  in  this  manner.  In 
their  own  headaches  they  use  their  right  or  left 
thumb  —  depending  upon  whether  they  are  right 
or  left-handed.  In  treating  others,  they  use  the 
first  and  second  fingers,  pressing  firmly  under 
the  seat  of  pain. 

Their  "points  of  attack"  may  extend  from  the 
roots  of  the  front  teeth  —  for  a  frontal  head- 
ache —  to  the  junction  of  the  hard  and  soft 
palate  —  for  a  pain  in  the  back  of  the  head.  Or 
from  the  roots  of  the  right  upper  molars  to  those 
of  the  upper  left  molars,  if  the  pain  be  in  the 
region  of  the  temples  or  the  side  of  the  head. 

Only  temporary  results  should  be  expected  — 
or  even  complete  failure  —  if  the  pain  is  due  to 
costiveness,  eye-strain,  or  some  persistent  organic 
condition  —  although  even  here  the  severity  of 
the  attack  can  usually  be  modified. 

In  those  headaches  excited  by  dental  opera- 
tions relief  can  almost  invariably  be  secured. 
Dr.  Thomas  J.  Ryan  of  New  York,  and  others 
familiar  with  zone  therapy  (the  science  of  re- 
lieving pain  and  curing  disease  by  pressures  in 
the  various  "zones"  affected  by  pain  or  disease), 
almost  uniformly  cure  headaches  or  neuralgias 
in  their  patients  in  this  manner.  In  medical 
practice  the  results  are  even  more  miraculous. 


26  ZONE    THERAPY. 

One  of  the  worst  cases  yet  treated  by  zone 
therapy  was  that  of  a  lady  who  had  suffered 
from  persistent  headache  for  more  than  three 
years.  She  had  been  to  all  the  most  prominent 
nerve  specialists  in  the  East,  and  had  also  con- 
sulted several  European  experts.  Her  heart  was 
in  a  very  dangerous  condition,  owing  to  the 
amount  of  antipyrin  and  other  headache  powders 
she  had  taken. 

Her  pain  was  located  most  generally  in  the 
forehead,  and  during  the  height  of  the  attacks 
extended  up  as  far  as  the  top  of  the  head. 

It  was  not  relieved  by  sleep  —  indeed,  it  was 
worse,  if  anything,  after  such  poor  and  inade- 
quate sleep  as  she  was  able  to  get.  This  fact 
eliminated  eye-strain  as  a  cause,  for  eye-strain 
headaches  are  almost  invariably  better  after  a 
night's  rest. 

Every  organ  in  the  body  had  received  a  most 
thorough  overhauling,  and  still  those  headaches 
held  the  fort.  So  the  diagnoses  settled  down 
into  "pain  habit." 

Christian  Science,  magnetic  healing,  faith 
cure,  and  most  of  the  modern  medical  fads  had 
all  been  tried,  without  success.  She  was  on  the 
verge  of  suicidal  melancholia. 

The  afternoon  I  first  saw  her  she  was  almost 
in  hysteria  —  her  pain  was  so  acute.  For  when 


THAT  ACHING  HEAD.  27 

telephoning  for  her  appointment  she  had  been 
told  not  to  take  any  opiates  —  as  they  might 
"mask  the  symptoms,"  and  confuse  the  diagnosis. 

Without  stopping  to  question  her,  I  washed 
my  hands  in  an  antiseptic  solution,  placed  the  tips 
of  the  first  arid  second  fingers  of  my  right  hand 
close  against  the  roots  of  her  incisor,  or  front 
teeth,  held  her  head  rigidly  with  the  left  hand, 
and  pressed  firmly  for  two  minutes.  I  then 
moved  my  finger  tips  an  inch  further  back  on 
the  hard  palate,  and  repeated  the  pressure  for 
another  two  minutes. 

Releasing  her,  I  stepped  back,  much  as  an 
artist  might,  in  vieT.  ;ng  a  piece  of  work  that 
pleases  him.  That  I  was  justified  in  so  doing 
was  proved  by  the  fact  that,  for  the  first  time  in 
three  years,  except  when  under  the  complete  in- 
fluence of  an  opiate,  this  lady  was  absolutely 
free  from  pain, 

I  instructed  her  husband,  who  accompanied 
her,  just  where  to  make  the  proper  pressures 
when  the  pain  returned,  and  within  a  week  had  a 
report  from  him  that  there  were  now  no  further 
attacks  of  the  neuralgic  headaches.  This  relief 
has  persisted  for  more  than  a  year. 

Headaches  frequently  respond  to  pressures 
exerted  over  the  joints  on  the  thumb  or  fingers, 
or  sometimes  it  may  be  necessary  to  "attack"  it 


26  ZONE    THERAPY. 

One  of  the  worst  cases  yet  treated  by  zone 
therapy  was  that  of  a  lady  who  had  suffered 
from  persistent  headache  for  more  than  three 
years.  She  had  been  to  all  the  most  prominent 
nerve  specialists  in  the  East,  and  had  also  con- 
sulted several  European  experts.  Her  heart  was 
in  a  very  dangerous  condition,  owing  to  the 
amount  of  antipyrin  and  other  headache  powders 
she  had  taken. 

Her  pain  was  located  most  generally  in  the 
forehead,  and  during  the  height  of  the  attacks 
extended  up  as  far  as  the  top  of  the  head. 

It  was  not  relieved  by  sleep  —  indeed,  it  was 
worse,  if  anything,  after  such  poor  and  inade- 
quate sleep  as  she  was  able  to  get.  This  fact 
eliminated  eye-strain  as  a  cause,  for  eye-strain 
headaches  are  almost  invariably  better  after  a 
night's  rest. 

Every  organ  in  the  body  had  received  a  most 
thorough  overhauling,  and  still  those  headaches 
held  the  fort.  So  the  diagnoses  settled  down 
into  "pain  habit." 

Christian  Science,  magnetic  healing,  faith 
cure,  and  most  of  the  modern  medical  fads  had 
all  been  tried,  without  success.  She  was  on  the 
verge  of  suicidal  melancholia. 

The  afternoon  I  first  saw  her  she  was  almost 
in  hysteria  —  her  pain  was  so  acute.  For  when 


THAT  ACHING  HEAD.  27 

telephoning  for  her  appointment  she  had  been 
told  not  to  take  any  opiates  —  as  they  might 
"mask  the  symptoms,"  and  confuse  the  diagnosis. 

Without  stopping  to  question  her,  I  washed 
my  hands  in  an  antiseptic  solution,  placed  the  tips 
of  the  first  arid  second  fingers  of  my  right  hand 
close  against  the  roots  of  her  incisor,  or  front 
teeth,  held  her  head  rigidly  with  the  left  hand, 
and  pressed  firmly  for  two  minutes.  I  then 
moved  my  finger  tips  an  inch  further  back  on 
the  hard  palate,  and  repeated  the  pressure  for 
another  two  minutes. 

Releasing  her,  I  stepped  back,  much  as  an 
artist  might,  in  vie\  1'ng  a  piece  of  work  that 
pleases  him.  That  I  was  justified  in  so  doing 
was  proved  by  the  fact  that,  for  the  first  time  in 
three  years,  except  when  under  the  complete  in- 
fluence of  an  opiate,  this  lady  was  absolutely 
free  from  pain. 

I  instructed  her  husband,  who  accompanied 
her,  just  where  to  make  the  proper  pressures 
when  the  pain  returned,  and  within  a  week  had  a 
report  from  him  that  there  were  now  no  further 
attacks  of  the  neuralgic  headaches.  This  relief 
has  persisted  for  more  than  a  year. 

Headaches  frequently  respond  to  pressures 
exerted  over  the  joints  on  the  thumb  or  fingers, 
or  sometimes  it  may  be  necessary  to  "attack"  it 


30  ZONE    THERAPY. 

sion,  as  soon  as  it  is  generally  informed  concern-- 
ing zone  therapy,  will  eagerly  welcome  the 
opportunity  to  promulgate  the  advantages  of  a 
safe  and  harmless  method  of  relieving  headache 
and  pain.  And  also  of  doing  away  with  the 
necessity  for  longer  resorting  to  dangerous 
antipyrin  or  phenacetin  tablets  and  powders. 
This  is  a  crusade  worthy  of  their  highest  al- 
truism and  noblest  self-sacrifice. 


CHAPTER  III. 

CURING  GOITRE  WITH   A   PROBE. 

ONE  of  the  most  obstinate  disorders  that 
afflict  humanity  —  and  one  which  seems 
to  be  rapidly  on  the  increase  —  is  goitre. 
Goitre  is  a  general  condition,  in  which  the  thy- 
roid gland  becomes  progressively  enlarged,  pro- 
ducing an  unsightly  swelling  low  down  on  the 
front  of  the  neck. 

Associated  with  this  swelling  —  whether  as  a 
cause  or  as  an  effect  no  one  knows  for  a  cer- 
tainty —  is  a  distressing  state  of  nervousness, 
apprehension,  and  general  discomfort. 

Frequently  the  case  becomes  "exopthalmic"  in 
type,  running  a  pulse  of  150  or  more  to  the  min- 
ute, and  later  developing  irregularities  in  the 
heart's  action.  In  this  form  there  is  also  a 
marked  protrusion  of  the  eye-balls,  from  pres- 
pressure  behind  the  globes  of  the  eye,  due  to 
disturbances  in  the  local  circulation. 

Many  causes  have  been  assigned  for  goitre, 
but  no  one  knows  for  certain  which  is  the  cor- 
rect one.  Because  of  its  prevalence  in  Switzer- 
land and  in  other  mountainous  regions,  where 

(31) 


32  ZONE    THERAPY. 

the  inhabitants  are  obliged  to  depend  upon  water 
which  was  originally  snow  for  their  drinking 
supply,  it  was  thought  that  the  condition  arose 
as  a  result  of  the  lack  of  lime  and  other  mineral 
salts  ordinarily  found  in  water  which  had  been 
more  intimately  in  contact  with  the  earth.  Yet 
the  feeding  of  these  mineral  salts  to  those  af- 
flicted with  goitre  made  no  appreciable  differ- 
ence in  the  condition  of  these  patients. 

Other  observers  have  ascribed  goitre  to  the 
influence  of  the  nervous  tension,  under  which  we 
live  in  this  era  of  break-your-neck-to-get-there- 
and-do-it.  Others  locate  the  seat  of  this  disease 
in  the  brain  itself,  in  the  blood  vessels,  and  in  the 
blood;  others,  who  favor  the  so-called  "mechan- 
ical theory,"  ascribe  the  symptoms  to  compres- 
sion by  an  enlarged  thyroid  gland  of  the  nerves 
and  vessels  in  the  neck,  although  they  neglect  to 
tell  us  how  the  gland  became  enlarged,  in  tlic 
first  place. 

Many  authorities  claim  that  the  trouble  orig- 
inates most  frequently  as  a  result  of  eye  strain. 
They  insist  that  the  visual  centres,  us;ng  as  they 
do,  one-third  of  all  the  brain  energy,  are  over- 
worked, in  our  intensive  modern  life,  and  react 
upon  the  body  to  produce  the  toxins  of  fatigue. 
The  thyroid  body,  one  of  whose  functions  it  is  to 
secrete  a  product  which  tends  to  neutralize  these 


CURING  GOITRE  WITH  A  PROBE.  33 

toxins,  works  overtime  on  the  job,  and  not  know- 
ing when  to  quit,  keeps  right  on  working — with 
the  result  that  the  system  is  overcharged  with 
thyroid  extract.  This  thyroidism,  as  it  is  called, 
ultimately  produces  the  goitrous  symptoms. 

Other  clinicians  contend  that  the  disease  is  of 
microbic  origin  —  which  is  quite  unlikely  —  be- 
cause when  the  glands  have  been  brought  to  the 
autopsy  table  and  the  pathological  laboratory, 
microbes  have  not  been  found  in  quantity  suf- 
ficient to  cause  these  grave  symptoms. 

But  what  interests  and  discourages  those  af- 
fncced  most  is  that  if  the  cause  is  known,  the 
successful  treatment  is  even  more  unknown. 

Medical  men  have  treated  these  conditions  on 
,ue  general  supposition  that  there  was  either  too 
much  or  not  enough  thyroid  extract  secreted  and 
discharged  into  the  circulation  by  the  thyroid 
gland. 

So  they  gave  thyroid  tablets,  made  from  the 
dried  and  pulverized  glands  of  sheep.  If  these 
diminished  the  intensity  of  the  symptoms,  the 
doctors  knew  that  the  gland  was  deficient  in  its 
functioning  powers,  and  that  furnishing  an  ad- 
ditional supply  from  the  glands  of  our  woolly 
brothers  would  tend  to  restore  the  thyroid  de 
ficiency  in  us. 

If,  on  the  other  hand,  thyroid  medication  ag- 
3 


34  ZONE    THERAPY. 

gravated  the  condition,  the  physicians  figured 
that  the  patient  already  had  more  thyroid  sub- 
stance than  he  knew  what  to  do  with.  Hence 
they  administered  iodine  in  some  of  its  combina- 
tions —  generally  as  iodide  of  potash  —  in  order 
to  bring  about  a  more  active  condition  of  the 
glandular  system,  and  assist  in  the  elimination 
of  this  extra  thyroid  secretion. 

If  the  gland  still  grew,  and  the  symptoms  be- 
came worse,  there  remained  the  alternative  of 
ligating  or  "tying  off"  the  lobes,  in  order  to 
diminish  the  secreting  power  of  the  organ.  Or, 
more  radical,  yet  hardly  more  generally  effective, 
an  operation  was  made  —  extirpating  (cutting 
out)  a  considerable  portion  of  the  body  of  the 
thyroid. 

This,  as  may  be  imagined,  is  a  very  serious 
operation,  and  fraught  with  considerable  danger. 
Not  so  much  from  the  operation  itself,  as  from 
the  consequences  of  the  operation  upon  the  psy- 
chological and  mental  condition  of  the  patient. 
Not  infrequently  the  entire  nature  and  disposi- 
tion of  an  individual  may  be  changed  by  the 
apparently  simple  procedure  of  removing  a  few 
cubic  inches,  or  less,  of  tissue. 

So,  on  the  whole,  goitre  has  been  a  bugbear — 
most  unsatisfactory  from  every  angle.  Yet. 
with  the  proper  application  of  the  principles  of 


CURING  GOITRE  WITH  A  PROBE.  35 

zone  therapy,  goitre — including  the  most  ad- 
vanced forms  of  exopthalmic — is  one  of  the 
many  conditions  we  are  most  certain  of  curing. 

Almost  from  the  first  treatment,  the  feeling  of 
suffocation,  the  distressing  nervous  symptoms 
and  the  pulse  rate  are  favorably  influenced.  In 
from  two  to  eight  months  the  "pop  eye"  and  the 
swollen  gland  are  progressively  reduced  to  nor- 
mal. 

Up  to  this  writing,  I  have  had  more  than 
ninety  cases,  every  one  of  which,  with  two  ex- 
ceptions, have  been  cured  and  discharged,  or  are 
well  on  the  way  towards  a  cure.  The  tape  meas- 
ure shows  that  in  some  of  these  patients  the 
swelling  decreased  three  inches  in  as  many 
weeks.  One  very  responsive  case  was  reduced 
from  14J  to  13  inches  in  less  than  three  days' 
treatment.  The  photographs  accompanying  this 
chapter  speak  for  themselves.  (See  Figures  6 
and  7.)  There  is  no  possibility  of  doubting  the 
actual  accomplishments  of  this  method  in  the 
face  of  these  visual  demonstrations.  And,  as 
with  all  matters  detailed  in  these  pages,  the 
original  patients  and  data  may  be  seen  by  any 
medical  man  who  is  fairly  interested. 

The  explanation  for  the  non-relief  of  the  two 
cases  which  did  not  improve  under  treatment  is 
simple — and  very  conclusive  to  those  familiar 


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ZONE    THERAPY. 


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with  the  method  and  its  workings.  One  of  these 
two  non-benefited  cases  refused  to  carry  out  her 
"home  treatment".  The  other  was  a  patient  suf- 
fering from  an  uterine  tumor.  This  produced  a 
pathological  condition  in  the  goitre  zone.  Hence 
the  goitre  would  not  yield  until  all  other  condi- 
tions influencing  this  zone  were  removed.  I  sent 
this  lady  to  a  gynecologist  and  it  is  quite  certain 
that,  after  this  tumor  is  removed,  she  will,  under 
appropriate  treatment,  entirely  recover  from  her 
goitre. 

Dr.  Reid  Kellogg  and  Dr.  Thomas  Mournig- 
han  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  Dr.  George  Starr 
White  of  Los  Angeles,  Dr.  Plank  of  Kansas 
City,  and  a  number  of  other  medical  men,  have 
reported  that  they  have  the  same  uniformly 
favorable  results  in  treating  goitre  that  we  have 
here. 

Dr.  Kellogg  has  had  seventeen  cases,  all  of 
which  have  been,  or  are  being,  cured.  It:  is  in- 
teresting to  note  that  one  of  his  cases,  also,  a 
lady  suffering  from  a  slight  erosion  of  the  neck 
of  the  womb,  made  no  progress  until  this  con- 
dition was  cleared  up  by  proper  local  treatment. 

Dr.  Mournighan  has  also  reported  on  fifteen 
cases  —  eight  of  which  were  of  the  exopthalmic 
variety  —  all  improving  or  discharged  as  recov- 
ered. 


CURING  GOITRE  WITH   A   PROBE.  39 

In  treating  goitre  by  zone  therapy  a  thin  probe, 
(See  Fig.  8),  the  point  of  which  is  wrapped  in 
cotton  dipped  in  a  little  alcohol,  spirits  of  cam- 
phor or  camphor  water  (these  seem  to  increase 
the  "impulse")  is  passed  through  the  nostrils  to 
the  posterior  or  back  wall  of  the  pharynx.  Pres- 
sure is  made  in  various  spots  "low  down"  on  this 
wall  (a  little  practice  will  soon  determine  almost 
the  exact  "spot"  to  probe),  until  a  definite  sen- 


F.K.HfiRDY  SCO. 


FIG.   8.  —  Special   type   of   nasal   probe   used    for  attacking  the   posterior 
wall  of  the  nasopharynx. 


Dr.  White's  Uni-Polar  Post-Nasal 
Electrode  for  Zone  Therapy 


Fio.  9.  —  Dr.  White's  Uni-Polar  Poet-Nasal  Electrode  for  Zone 
Therapy.  May  be  used  with  or  without  electricity. 

sation  is  felt  in  the  region  of  the  goitre.  Some- 
times this  is  "metallic".  Or  it  may  be  a  sensa- 
tion of  cold,  or  tickling,  or  like  an  electric  cur- 
rent, or  else  a  mild  pain. 

This  pressure  is  held  for  several  minutes  — 
repeated  three  of  four  times  daily.  It  can  be 
done  just  as  well  by  the  patient  himself,  if  he 


40  ZONE    THERAPY. 

has  the  courage  to  hurt  himself  a  trifle.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  treatment  on  the  pharyngeal  wall, 
pressures  may  be  made  upon  the  joints  of  the 
thumb,  first  and  second  fingers,  as  shown  in 
Figure  3.  Or,  if  the  goitre  is  a  very  broad  one, 
and  extends  over  into  the  fourth  zone,  the  ring 
finger  must  also  be  employed.  A  moderately 
tight  rubber  band,  worn  upon  these  fingers  for 
ten  or  fifteen  minutes,  three  or  four  times  daily, 
will  also  help.  Rubber  bands  may  also  be  worn 
with  benefit  upon  the  toes  governing  the  zones  in- 
volved. But  the  treatment  must  be  persistent. 
It  must  be  the  intent  to  keep  the  goitre  zone 
"quieted,"  never  allowing  it,  except  during  sleep, 
to  come  completely  out  of  the  influence  of  the 
pressure.  And  even  during  sleep  in  aggravated 
cases,  moderate  pressure  should  be  continued. 

I  would  especially  emphasize  the  importance 
of  seeing  that  the  teeth  are  put  in  a  perfect  con- 
dition before  attempting  the  cure  of  any  case  of 
goitre.  For  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  evil  influ- 
ence of  bad  teeth  is  not,  by  any  means,  confined 
to  the  throat  and  tonsils,  as  many  observers  con- 
tend. Indeed,  I  do  not  recall  having  ever  seen  a 
goitre  case  in  which  there  was  not  something 
wrong  with  the  teeth.  I  therefore  make  a 
routine  practice  of  sending  all  goitre  patients 


CURING  GOITRE  WITH  A  PROBE.  41 

to  their  dentists  for  a  thorough  overhauling  of 
their  teeth  when  commencing  treatment. 

Also,  it  may  be  interesting  here  to  note  that  if 
the  theory  of  eye  strain  causation  of  goitre  is 
true— and  it  seems  quite  likely  that,  in  many 
cases,  it  may  be  —  pressure  therapy  may  log- 
ically be  looked  for  to  give  satisfactory  results. 
For  the  effects  of  eye  strain  can  undoubtedly  be 
relieved  by  pressure  exerted  on  the  first  and  sec- 
ond fingers,  as  we  shall  show  in  the  next  chapter. 

So  one  of  the  most  puzzling  and  unsatisfac- 
tory conditions  with  which  physicians  have  had 
to  deal  can  now  be  said  to  be  almost  invariably 
curable.  And  the  only  instruments  we  need  to 
operate  these  grave  conditions  are  a  straight  steel 
probe,  a  few  rubber  bands,  and  the  patient's  fin- 
gers. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

FINGER  PRESSURES  FOR  EYE  TROUBLES. 

IF  your  eyes  pain,  close  them  lightly  —  or 
leave  them  open,  if  you  prefer  -  -  and 
squeeze  tightly  the  knuckles  of  the  first  (or 
index)  fingers  of  both  hands.  Occasionally,  if 
the  eyes  are  set  far  apart  and  extend  over  into 
the  third  zone,  the  second  (or  middle)  finger 
must  be  included  in  this  digital  embrace.  But  as 
a  general  rule  pressure  on  the  upper  and  lower 
surfaces,  as  well  as  on  the  sides  of  the  first  and 
second  fingers  will,  within  five  minutes,  relieve 
the  pain  of  eye  strain.  Understand,  I  say  "re- 
lieve", not  "cure".  For  if  the  eye  strain  is  the 
result  of  a  too  constant  attendance  at  "movie" 
shows,  and  due  to  the  fact  that  the  little  eye 
muscles  are  expanding  and  contracting  hundreds 
of  times  a  minute  in  an  attempt  to  "focus"  upon 
the  flickering  screen,  the  only  cure  for  this  strain 
is  to  "cut  out"  these  entertainments,  or  else  pat- 
ronize a  movie  house  where  the  flicker  has  been 
"cut  out."  Of  course,  if  the  eye  strain  is  the 
result  of  imbalance  of  the  muscles  of  the  eye  it 
will  be  necessary  to  properly  adjust  this  faulty 

(42) 


FINGER    PRESSURES    FOR    EYE    TROUBLES.       43 

focus  by  reinforcing  the  lens  of  the  eye  with  a 
supplementary  one  made  of  glass. 

But  for  temporary  relief  firm  pressure  over 
the  joints  of  the  first  and  second  fingers,  con- 
tinued for  several  minutes,  will  usually  give 
results. 

Eye  strain  and  muscle  tire  are  largely  under 
the  control  of  the  nervous  system.  If  the  nerves 
are  fatigued,  the  muscles  function  imperfectly. 
If  the  muscles  are  wearied  the  nerves  sym- 
pathize, and  make  the  fact  known  by  raising  a 
wail  of  distress. 

And  so  it  follows  that  a  skeptic  is  legitimately 
entitled  to  say  "Yes,  you  zone  therapists  cure 
eye  strain  by  squeezing  fingers  or  toes,  but  as 
the  condition  is  primarily  a  nervous  one,  you 
really  cure  it  by  suggestion." 

This,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  frequently 
the  patient  has  no  idea  as  to  what  is  being  at- 
tempted, and  doesn't,  until  his  pain  is  relieved, 
know  why  any  one  should  want  to  squeeze  his 
fingers. 

Also,  I  would  urgently  recommend  any  be- 
liever in  the  "suggestion"  or  "mental"  response 
of  eye  pains  to  omit  pressures  over  the  first  and 
second  fingers  to  try  and  help  this  condition  by 
squeezing  the  thumb  and  little  finger,  and  see 
what  they  accomplish. 


44  ZONE   THERAPY. 

However,  accepting  the  extreme  position  of 
some  of  our  friends,  and  admitting  that  all  eye 
strain  is  imagination — or  an  error  of  the  mind 
—I  would  ask  them  to  consider  the  pert,  prom- 
inent, and  resolutely  determined  stye — which  is 
certainly  not  imaginary,  nor  merely  suggested. 
Also  inflammatory  conditions  of  the  conjunctiva 
— the  membrane  of  the  eye  and  lids — and  that 
irritating  and  extremely  annoying  affliction 
known  as  granulated  lids. 

It  might  be  considered  a  crucial  test  of  imagi- 
nation to  dissipate  and  clear  up  these  condi- 
tions, yet  zone  therapy  does  just  this.  For  sties 
and  such  eye  conditions  as  conjunctivitis  and 
granulated  lids  are  completely  relieved  by  pres- 
sure exerted  upon  the  joints  of  the  first  and 
second  finger  of  the  hand  corresponding  to  the 
eye  involved.  In  sties  the  relief  is  frequently 
complete  in  one  or  two  treatments.  In  other  in- 
flammatory conditions  of  the  mucous  mem- 
branes of  the  eye  it  may  be  necessary  to  give 
treatments  three  times  a  week  for  several  weeks. 
Also,  a  bandage  fastened  around  the  index 
fingers,  and  soaked  with  camphor  water,  fre- 
quently relieves  itching  and  congestion  of  the 
eyes. 

Favorable  results  are  almost  routine  in  these 
troubles,  and  usually  without  employing  any 


FINGER    PRESSURES    FOR    EYE   TROUBLES.       45 

other  measures.  For  facilitating  treatment, 
however — unless  the  results  of  the  exclusive  use 
of  zone  therapy  are  desired  for  experimental 
reasons, — it  might  be  well  to  use  hot  boric  acid 
compresses,  or  other  indicated  measures,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  pressures. 

To  go  still  farther  I  might  state  a  fact  that 
every  doctor  will  immediately  admit.  And  this 
is,  that  inflammation  of  the  optic  nerve — optic 
neuritis — is  most  decidedly  not  imaginary,  nor 
is  it,  so  far  as  I  know,  cured  by  telling  the  patient 
that  there  is  nothing  the  matter  with  him.  As  a 
usual  thing,  whether  treated  or  not,  one  afflicted 
with  optic  neuritis  goes  on  to  complete  blindness. 

Yet  we  have  cured  optic  neuritis  by  making 
pressures  over  the  first  and  second  fingers,  and 
over  the  inferior  dental  nerve — where  it  enters 
the  lower  jaw  bone. 

One  patient  I  have  in  mind,  who  had  been 
treated  without  benefit  by  several  competent 
medical  men,  using  conventional  and  accepted 
methods,  received  no  other  form  of  treatment — 
no  local  applications,  no  antiseptics.  Yet  relief 
followed  almost  immediately  after  the  pressures 
were  made.  The  woman  was  treated  twice  the 
first  day.  That  night  she  slept  without  taking 
an  opiate — something  she  had  not  done  before  in 
several  weeks. 


46  ZONE    THERAPY. 

A  complete  cure  of  her  condition  was  brought 
about  within  a  week,  and  now,  after  the  expira- 
tion of  six  months,  there  has  been  no  return  of 
her  symptoms. 

For  the  benefit  of  physician  readers  I  should 
like  to  add  that  in  treating  eye  strain,  conjunc- 
tivitis, sties,  granulated  lids,  and  eye  conditions 
generally,  pressures  made  with  a  blunt  probe, 
(see  E,  Fig.  10)  on  the  muco-cutaneous  margins 
(where  the  skin  joins  the  mucous  membrane  in 
the  nostrils)  affects  the  second  division  of  the 
opthalmic  nerve,  and  assists  materially  in  bring- 
ing about  a  favorable  influence  in  eye  troubles. 

I  would  also  emphasize  the  importance  of  see- 
ing that  the  condition  of  the  cuspid  and  bicuspid 
teeth  were  perfect,  as  frequently  some  chronic 
inflammatory  eye  trouble  may  be  caused  by  an 
infection  from  the  roots  of  the  cuspid  and  bicus- 
pid teeth. 

In  order  permanently  to  cure  anything  its 
cause  must  be  removed.  And  it  stands  to  rea- 
son that  if  a  patient  persists  in  poisoning  himself 
with  coffee,  tobacco,  or  alcohol;  or  suffers  from 
an  impoverished  condition  of  the  blood,  or  from 
a  brain  tumor,  lead  poisoning,  or  an  injury,  or 
has  some  constitutional  or  organic  disease  or 
some  spinal  lesion,  which  is  the  basis  for  his  eye 
trouble,  permanent  relief  will  not  follow  unless 
these  causes  are  removed  or  corrected. 


FINGER    PRESSURES    FOR    EYE    TROUBLES.       47 


Non-Electrical  Applicators  Useful  in  Zone  Therapy 

A  is  an  ordinary  surgical  clamp  which  can  be  used  for  clamping 
the  tongue. 

B  is  an  ordinary  eye-muscle  retractor.  This  can  be  used  for 
intermittently  retracting  the  posterior  pillars  of  the  fauces. 

C  is  a  special  type  of  nasal  probe' used  for  attacking  the  pos- 
terior wall  of  the  nasopharynx. 

D  is  a -regular  palpebral  retractor  which  can  be -used  for  inter- 
mittently retracting  the  soft  palate,  especially  in  the  region  of  the 
fossa  of  Rosenmliller. 

E  is  a  regular  flat  applicator  bent  up  at  one  end.  This  is  useful 
about  the  throat  and  .fauces.  It  can  be  used  as  a  pressure  applicator 
for  the  posterior  wall  of  the  oropharynx. 

F  is  an  ordinary  aluminum  comb  used 'for  attacking  the  fingers 
or  toes  either  at  the  tips  or  about  the  joints. 

FIG.    10. 


48  ZONE   THERAPY. 

But  if  he  has  a  condition  due  to  an  excess  of 
nerve  or  muscle  tension,  or  if  he  has  trouble  pro- 
duced by  faulty  circulation  from  any  cause, 
squeezing  his  fingers  will  come  nearer  to  curing 
him — and  more  expeditiously  and  satisfactorily— 
than  any  other  treatment.  If  you  don't  believe 
it,  try  it.  It  costs  nothing  but  a  few  minutes' 
intelligent  effort. 


CHAPTER  V. 

MAKING  THE  DEAF  HEAR. 

TOO  much  knowledge  is  a  dangerous 
thing.  For  it  keeps  one  thus  afflicted 
from  acquiring  more. 

Of  course  it  seems  outlandish  and  quite  be- 
yond the  pale  of  reason,  to  ask  a  man  who  can 
minutely  describe  the  semi-circular  canals  of  the 
ear,  or  bound  the  internal  labyrinth  on  the  north, 
south,  east  and  west,  to  believe  that  by  pressing 
with  a  blunt  probe  behind  the  wisdom  tooth,  or 
at  the  angle  of  the  jaw  on  the  upper  surface,  the 
hearing  of  the  adjacent  ear  can  be  materially 
benefited.  Or  that  a  similar  result  would  follow 
squeezing  upon  the  joints  of  the  ring  finger,  or 
the  toe  corresponding  to  the  ring  finger.  And 
this,  after  every  other  scientifically  accredited 
method,  administered  by  the  world's  greatest 
specialists,  had  failed.  Yet  such  is  the  fact. 
For  it  is  the  experience  of  physicians,  familiar 
with  the  practice  and  principles  of  zone  therapy, 
that  nine  out  of  ten  cases  of  otosclerosis  (thick- 
ening or  chronic  congestion  of  the  membranes 
of  the  ear)  can  be  improved  from  25%  to  90%. 

4  (49) 


50  ZONE    THERAPY. 

And,  that  ringing  in  the  ears  and  "ear  noises," 
or  catarrhal  deafness,  can  be  relieved  in  an  even 
larger  number  of  cases.  If  there  is  any  hearing 
left  at  all,  these  methods  are  almost  certain  to 
improve  it. 

General  practitioners,  osteopaths  and  dentists, 
who  do  not  know  so  much  about  the  geography 
of  the  ear  as  does  the  ear  specialist,  have  no 
hesitation  in  "trying  out"  these  methods,  fre- 
quently with  astonishing  results. 

One  dentist  of  my  acquaintance,  whose  knowl- 
edge of  the  ear  is  merely  academic,  has  cured  or 
materially  improved  the  hearing  of  more  than 
twenty  of  his  patients.  This  he  did  by  instruct- 
ing them  to  tuck  a  "wad"  of  absorbent  lint,  or  a 
handkerchief,  in  the  space  between  the  last  tooth 
and  the  angle  of  the  jaw,  and  "bite  down  hard" 
upon  this  substance  for  several  minutes,  repeat- 
ing this  procedure  two  or  three  times  daily. 

Some  medical  men  cause  these  patients  to 
"work"  on  the  ring  finger  on  the  side  involved, 
and  do  almost  as  well. 

It  may  better  serve  our  purposes,  by  way  of 
illustration,  were  I  to  cite  a  few  specific  cases, 
and  detail  their  exact  manner  of  treatment.  It 
may  then  be  easier  to  put  the  teaching  into  prac- 
tical application,  following  exactly  the  treatment 
as  outlined. 


MAKING  THE  DEAF  HEAR.  51 

A  lady,  the  wife  of  an  ear  specialist,  was  re- 
cently brought  to  me  for  deafness.  The  doctor, 
having  tried  unsuccessfully  every  accredited 
method,  was  constrained  to  "see  what  zone 
therapy  would  do." 

For  thirty  years  this  patient  had  heard  nothing 
with  the  right  ear,  and  very  little  with  the  left. 
I  stimulated,  with  a  stiff,  curved  cotton-tipped 
probe  (instrument  shown  in  Fig.  5  may  be  used), 
the  area  lying  between  the  last  tooth  and  the 
angle  of  the  jaw  —  carefully  "covering"  all  the 
gum  surfaces — sides  as  well  as  biting  surfaces. 

In  addition,  I  hooked  an  instrument  behind  the 
soft  palate  (see  D,  Fig.  10),  and  "stretched"  it 
gently  forward.  This,  I  have  found,  powerfully 
stimulates  the  circulation  of  the  "ear  zones,"  and 
is  most  helpful — particularly  in  catarrhal  deaf- 
ness. After  two  treatments  this  patient  could 
hear  a  small  tuning  fork  one-half  inch  away 
from  the  right  ear,  and  one  inch  from  the  left. 
After  a  few  more  treatments,  her  hearing  so 
wonderfully  improved  that  she  could  hear  a 
whisper  with  the  right  ear.  This  after  being 
"stone  deaf"  in  that  ear  for  thirty  years,  and 
after  having  visited  "all  the  noted  aurists  in  this 
country  and  abroad." 

A  young  soprano,  member  of  a  leading  Hart- 
ford church  choir,  suffered  a  progressive  loss  in 


52  ZONE    THERAPY. 

hearing,  which  finally  became  so  pronounced  as 
to  make  it  almost  impossible  for  her  to  "sing  on 
the  pitch,"  or  harmonize  with  either  the  organ 
or  the  other  quartette  members. 

She  received  treatment  similar  to  that  em- 
ployed on  the  aurist's  wife,  supplementing  the 
same  by  "home  treatment."  This  consisted  in 
"tucking"  a  wad  of  surgeon's  gauze  (it  has  since 
been  discovered  that  a  solid  rubber  eraser  gives 
even  better  results)  in  the  space  back  of  the 
wisdom  tooth,  and  having  her  bite  forcibly  upon 
it,  repeating  the  procedure  several  times  daily— 
especially  immediately  before  singing  or  re- 
hearsing. In  a  few  weeks  this  girl  had  com- 
pletely recovered  her  hearing,  and  was  able  to 
accept  an  engagement  with  a  traveling  concert 
company,  a  position  very  much  more  remunera- 
tive than  the  church  position  she  resigned. 

I  have  had  to  date  possibly  fifty  cases  of  deaf- 
ness of  one  kind  or  another,  almost  all  of  which 
have  been  materially  helped  by  zone  therapy. 

One  patient,  a  minister  afflicted  with  oto- 
sclerosis  (this  supposed  thickening  of  the  mem- 
branes of  the  inner  ear)  for  twenty-five  years, 
could  barely  hear  loud  talking. 

After  working  for  five  minutes  upon  the 
joints  of  the  third  (ring)  finger,  and  to  a  lesser 
degree,  upon  its  two  neighbors,  it  was  found  that 


MAKING  THE  DEAF  HEAR.  53 

the  reverend  gentleman  could  hear  a  whisper 
twenty  feet  away. 

As  proof  of  this  it  was  whispered  to  him  "Will 
you  kindly  close  the  window  above  your  head?" 
He  rose  immediately  from  his  chair,  and 
"obliged." 

A  New  York  physician  had  a  relative  who  had 
been  unsuccessfully  treated  for  deafness  in  one 
ear  (the  right)  for  the  past  sixteen  years,  by  the 
most  famous  aurists  in  New  York,  London, 
Paris,  Berlin,  Dresden,  Vienna,  and  other  cen- 
ters of  medical  learning.  X-Ray  treatment  had 
at  one  time  made  this  case  at  least  twenty-five 
per  cent  worse.  With  the  left  ear  this  patient 
could  hear  a  loud  voice  "close  up." 

Dr.  Reid  Kellogg  volunteered  to  "show  the 
Doctor  something,"  using  this  case  for  demon- 
stration purposes. 

The  Doctor,  like  Barkis,  being  willin',  our 
friend  took  his  trusty  aluminum  comb  from  his 
pocket  and  exerted  pressure  for  five  minutes 
with  the  teeth  of  the  comb  on  the  finger  tips  of 
the  patient's  left  hand.  He  then  used  a  tongue 
depressor  on  the  hard  palate,  and  on  the  floor  of 
the  mouth,  for  six  or  seven  minutes  more,  and 
then  on  the  tongue  for  an  additional  five. 

The  Doctor  then  stood  ten  feet  away  from  his 


54  ZONE    THERAPY. 

relative  and  talked  to  him  in  an  ordinary  tone  of 
voice.  The  patient  distinctly  heard,  with  the 
left  ear,  every  word  spoken. 

Our  pupil  then  started  to  work  on  the  other 
hand.  The  patient  insisted  that  this  was  merely 
a  waste  of  time,  as  the  "biggest"  ear  specialists 
in  Europe  had  failed  upon  this.  However,  the 
attempt  was  made,  and  within  ten  minutes  the 
patient  heard  a  clock  a  foot  away,  a  watch  held 
three  inches  distant  from  his  ear,  and  he  further 
was  able  to  repeat  words  spoken  loudly  two  feet 
away.  During  the  experiments  with  his  right 
ear,  the  left  was  tightly  plugged  with  cotton, 
still  further  wedged  in  the  canal  by  the  physi- 
cian's finger.  So  this  was  a  rather  conclusive 
test. 

A  lady,  aged  forty-nine,  deaf  since  she  was 
six  years  old,  came  to  the  office  of  a  specialist 
who  had  studied  zone  therapy.  When  the  physi- 
cian applied  a  comb  to  one  hand,  she  put  the 
other  to  one  side  of  her  lips — the  side  the  doctor 
was  on — and  whispered  to  her  friend  "Crank." 
Twenty  minutes  later,  being  then  able  to  hear 
ordinary  conversation,  she  whispered  again. 
This  time  she  said  "Wizard."  A  few  days  later 
she  asked  a  friend  riding  with  her  in  a  street 
car  if  the  bell  always  rang  when  the  conductor 


MAKING  THE  DEAF  HEAR.  55 

pulled  the  strap.  She  was  hearing  it  for  the  first 
time  in  her  life. 

One  lady  came  to  this  doctor  with  her  hus- 
band. They  were  both  deaf.  But  the  baby  in 
her  arms  was  not  deaf — and  most  decidedly  was 
not  dumb  either.  In  less  than  a  fortnight's  treat- 
ment both  parents  could  hear  the  baby  cry  every 
night,  which  was  a  great  satisfaction  to  them — 
in  one  way.  But  they  don't  know  yet  whether 
to  laugh  or  cry  about  it. 

Dr.  Thomas  Mournighan  has  given  me  the 
details  of  two  remarkable  cases,  one  a  veteran 
of  sixty-eight,  who,  since  the  Civil  War,  has 
been  deaf  from  gun  concussion.  This  man  had 
never  heard  through  the  telephone,  the  perfec- 
tion and  general  use  of  which  dates  since  the  war. 

After  making  pressure  with  a  probe  (applica- 
tor shown  in  Fig.  5  may  be  used)  on  the  gum 
margins  near  the  angle  of  the  jaw  this  gentle- 
man was  able  to  hear  through  a  'phone — the  first 
time  he  had  ever  experienced  this  pleasure.  That 
it  was  a  pleasure  was  evidenced  by  the  fact  that 
the  old  soldier  danced  around  the  office  in  a  per- 
fect transport  of  glee. 

The  Doctor's  own  father,  whose  condition  was 
similar  to  that  of  the  other  patient,  also  de- 
veloped a  very  material  increase  in  his  ability  to 
hear. 


56  ZONE    THERAPY. 

It  is  but  fair  to  say,  however,  that  the  patient's 
"home  treatments"  must  be  persistent  in  order  to 
maintain  this  improvement.  If  these  treatments 
are  discontinued  for  any  appreciable  length  of 
time  the  condition  seems  to  relapse.  We  are  not 
yet  prepared  to  say  why  this  should  be  so. 

I  would  emphasize  also  that,  in  ear  trouble,  the 
condition  of  wisdom  teeth  be  carefully  looked 
after.  For,  I  am  convinced,  many  cases  of  loss 
of  hearing,  or  middle  ear  trouble,  have  their 
origin  in  some  pathological  condition  of  these 
teeth. 

It  may  be  of  interest  here  to  note  also  that  one 
of  the  most  effective  ear-ache  cures  we  possess 
is  a  spring  clothespin  fastened  for  five  minutes 
or  thereabouts  on  the  tip  of  the  ring  finger.  Any 
manipulation  over  this  zone  is  effective,  but 
hollowed-out  spring  clothespins  and  rubber  bands 
have  been  particularly  so. 

To  illustrate:  During  a  recent  medical  con- 
vention in  the  West  one  of  the  physicians  attend- 
ing complained  of  a  severe  ear-ache.  A 
physician  present,  well  versed  in  zone  therapy, 
requested  permission  to  examine  the  ear-ache 
doctor's  fingers,  alleging  that  by  pressing  inter- 
mittently on  the  finger  nails,  he  could  estimate 
the  degree  of  blood  pressure,  and  perhaps  sug- 
gest a  course  of  treatment  which  might  perma- 


MAKING  THE  DEAF  HEAR.  57 

nently  cure  the  ear  trouble — if  not  caused  by  an 
abscess. 

The  doctor  extended  the  hand  on  the  side  of 
the  afflicted  ear. 

The  zone  therapy  man  squeezed  the  tip  of  the 
fourth  finger,  raised  the  ringer  nail,  and  let  it 
settle  back  a  dozen  or  more  times,  "to  see  how  the 
circulation  reacted,"  as  he  said.  After  three  or 
four  minutes  he  said  "By  the  way,  Doctor,  which 
ear  did  you  say  is  giving  you  the  trouble  ?" 

The  Doctor  looked  up  in  blank  amazement,  felt 
his  ears,  shook  his  head,  and  said,  "You  don't 
mean  to  say  that  that  darned  foolishness  cured 
my  ear-ache,  do  you  ?" 

It  does  seem  silly,  and  yet  it  "works."  And 
anything  that  works  is  beneficent  and  helpful, 
and  deserves  encouragement.  For  deafness  and 
ear  troubles  are  common,  and  seem  to  be  becom- 
ing more  so. 


CHAPTER  6. 

PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH. 

ANY  method,  no  matter  how  improbable- 
seeming  it  may  be,  calculated  to  render 
labor  or  operations  upon  women  less  of 
an  ordeal,  is  worthy  of  consideration  by  physi- 
cians, midwives,  and  the  laity.  Therefore  there 
may  be  something  well  worth  "trying  out"  in  the 
"pressure"  method  of  inducing  relief  from  pain. 

A  number  of  physicians  have  reported  results 
that,  if  confirmed  by  further  experiences,  war- 
rant us  in  believing  that  zone  pressure  promises 
to  be  a  boon  to  womankind. 

To  those  who  have  had  experience  with  pres- 
sure analgesia  in  dentistry,  and  in  the  relief  of 
rheumatism,  lumbago,  neuralgia,  and  other  pain- 
ful affections,  mitigating — or  even  entirely  re- 
lieving— the  pains  of  childbirth  seem  quite  within 
the  bounds  of  possibility.  In  any  event,  it  will 
not  be  difficult  to  put  it  to  a  broad  conclusive  test. 
And  it  is  absolutely  harmless,  there  is  no  danger 
to  mother  or  child  in  its  employment,  and  no  in- 
dication that  it  might  be  responsible  for  a  "blue 
baby."  For  in  almost  every  case  in  which  it  has 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  59 

been  tried,  labor  has  been  accelerated  three  hours 
or  more — instead  of  retarded. 

The  methods  are  so  simple  that  they  can  be 
utilized  by  any  one — even  by  women  who  may, 
in  their  hour  of  labor,  chance  to  be  remote  from 
medical  attention.  Two  combs  (broad  aluminum 
combs  about  four  inches  in  length  have  been 
found  to  be  the  best)  to  clench  the  fingers  and 
thumbs  over  (see  Fig.  11),  and  some  sharp  or 
edged  surface  to  press  the  soles  of  the  feet 
against  (see  Fig.  12),  are  all  the  instruments 
that  are  required,  altho  a  clamp  has  now  been 
devised  (see  Fig.  13)  which  can  be  fastened  on 
the  hands  to  include  both  surfaces  and  all  zones. 
It  is  applied  when  contractions  begin,  and  is  kept 
in  position  intermittently  until  delivery  is  com- 
pleted. Rubber  bands,  bound  around  the  great 
and  "index"  toes,  also  afford  a  gratifying  help. 

To  relieve  the  after-pains  and  facilitate  the 
expulsion  of  the  afterbirth,  it  has  been  found  that 
"stimulating"  strokes,  with  the  teeth  of  the 
aluminum  comb,  or  the  "bristles"  of  a  wire  hair 
brush,  are  most  effective.  It  may  require  that 
these  strokes  be  given  from  ten  minutes  to  one- 
half  hour.  But  they  assist  wonderfully  in  con- 
tracting the  uterus. 

Dr.  R.  T.  H.  Nesbitt,  of  Waukegan,  111.,  is 
one  of  a  number  of  physicians  who  have  had 


60 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FlG.    11.  —  This    shows    method    of    treating    lumbago    and    pains    in 
back   of   the  body,   affecting  all   the   zones. 


the 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH. 


61 


Valens 
Disc 
Zone- 
Analgesic 
with  Rope 
Attachment) 

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used  on  these 
.pplicators  and 
ttached  to  the 

foot  of  the  bed 


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1'hqrapy  for  Sciatica 
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62 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FlG.  13.  —  This  is  the   hand  clamp  used  with   such  ertraordinary   succes 
in   relieving   the   pains   of   childbirth. 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  63 

practical  experience  with  pressure  analgesia  in 
childbirth.  He  sends  this  very  interesting  re- 
port: 

"During  the  past  week  I  have  been  attending 
the  lectures  of  Dr.  George  Starr  White.  In  this 
most  interesting  and  helpful  series,  Dr.  White 
explained  and  exemplified  biodynamic  diagnosis 
by  means  of  the  magnetic  meridian  (a  remark- 
able discovery  of  Dr.  White,  which  enables  one 
to  diagnose  diseases  otherwise  undiagnosible. 
This  by  means  of  changes  in  the  "tension"  of 
organs — which  occurs  when  a  properly  grounded 
patient  is  turned  from  North  or  South  to  East 
or  West).  Dr.  White  also  demonstrated  zone 
therapy.  He  asked  if  any  of  the  doctors  present 
expected  a  confinement  case  soon.  If  so,  he 
wished  to  give  them  some  suggestions  in  zone 
anesthesia  in  connection  with  delivery. 

"As  I  was  expecting  a  'call'  every  hour  I  told 
Dr.  White,  and  he  gave  me  some  special  points 
concerning  this  work.  Last  night  I  was  called 
to  attend  what  I  expected  would  be  my  last  case 
in  confinement,  as  I  have  been  doing  this  work 
so  many  years  that  I  intended  to  retire.  From 
my  last  night's  experience  I  feel  as  if  I  should 
like  to  start  the  practice  of  medicine  all  over 
again. 

"The   woman   I   delivered   was   a   primipara 


64  ZONE    THERAPY. 

(one  who  had  never  had  a  child  before,  and  who 
therefore,  because  of  the  rigidity  of  the  bones 
and  tissues,  has  a  move  difficult  labor),  small  in 
stature. 

"When  severe  contractions  began,  and  the 
mother  was  beginning  to  be  very  nervous  and 
complained  of  pain,  at  which  time  I  generally 
administer  chloroform,  I  began  pressing  on  the 
soles  of  the  feet  with  the  edge  of  a  big  file,  as  I 
could  find  nothing  else.  I  pressed  on  the  top  of 
the  foot  with  the  thumbs  of  both  hands  at  the 
metatarsal-phalangeal  joint,  (where  the  toes 
join  the  foot).  I  exerted  this  pressure  over  each 
foot  for  about  three  minutes  at  a  time.  The 
mother  told  me  that  the  pressure  on  the  feet 
gave  her  no  pain  whatsoever. 

"As  she  did  not  have  any  uterine  pain,  I  was 
afraid  there  was  no  advancement.  To  my  great 
surprise,  when  I  examined  her  about  ten  or 
fifteen  minutes  later,  I  found  the  head  within 
two  inches  of  the  outlet.  I  then  waited  about 
fifteen  minutes,  and  on  examination  found  the 
head  at  the  vulva.  I  then  pressed  again  for 
about  one  or  two  minutes  on  each  foot,  the  edge 
of  the  file  being  on  the  sole  of  the  foot,  and  my 
thumbs  over  the  tarsal-metatarsal  joints  as  be- 
fore. In  this  way  I  exerted  pressure  on  the  sole 
of  the  foot  with  the  file,  and  pressure  on  the 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  65 

dorsum  of  the  foot  with  my  thumbs,  doing  each 
foot  separately.  The  last  pressure  lasted  about 
one  and  a  half  minutes  to  each  foot.  Within 
five  or  ten  minutes  the  head  was  appearing,  and 
I  held  it  back  to  preserve  the  perineum  (the 
tissue  joining  the  vagina  and  the  rectum).  It 
made  steady  progress,  the  head  and  shoulders 
coming  out  in  a  normal  manner.  Within  three 
minutes  the  child — which  "weighed  in"  at  9  1/2 
pounds — was  born,  crying  lustily.  The  mother 
told  me  she  did  not  experience  any  pain  what- 
ever, and  could  not  believe  the  child  was  born. 
She  laughed  and  said,  'This  is  not  so  bad.' 

"Another  point  that  is  very  remarkable  is  that 
after  the  child  was  born,  the  woman  did  not  ex- 
perience the  fatigue  that  is  generally  felt,  and 
the  child  was  more  active  than  usual.  I  account 
for  this  on  the  principle  that  pain  inhibits  (pre- 
vents) progress  of  the  birth,  and  tires  the  child. 
But  as  the  pain  was  inhibited,  the  progress  was 
more  steady,  and  thus  fatigue  to  both  mother 
and  child  was  avoided." 

A  Massachusetts  doctor  supplements  this  case 
with  several  others — equally  ridiculous  or  revolu- 
tionary— depending  upon  our  viewpoint.  To  in- 
sure brevity  and  accuracy  I  quote  the  Doctor's 
own  words. 

"Case  1.     Multipara  (a  woman  who  has  had 

5 


66  ZONE    THERAPY. 

previous  confinements) — mother  of  four.  Short- 
est previous  labor  eight  hours.  Had  had  a 
laceration  of  cervix  (neck  of  the  womb)  with 
her  first  child.  Also  one  forceps  delivery. 

"When  labor  commenced  she  was  given  two 
aluminum  combs  to  hold  (as  shown  in  Fig.  11), 
and  instructed  to  make  strong  pressure  upon 
them,  with  a  view  of  inhibiting  pains,  particu- 
larly in  the  first,  second  and  third  zones.  These 
combs  were  four  inches  in  length  and  slightly 
roughened  on  the  ends,  so  that  the  lateral  (or 
side)  surfaces  of  the  thumbs  could  more  effec- 
tively be  stimulated. 

"Was  called  at  four  a.  m.,  arrived  at  5 :05,  and 
the  babe  had  just  been  born.  The  patient  re- 
ported that  she  had  been  in  bed  for  only  15 
minutes.  There  had  been  only  one  severe  pain. 
This  was  when  the  head  delivered. 

"There  was  no  exhaustion  following,  as  with 
her  previous  labors,  and  she  said  laughingly,  'I 
believe  I'll  be  able  to  get  up  this  afternoon, 
Doctor.' 

"The  afterbirth  delivery  seemed  to  be  stimu- 
lated, and  the  pains  controlled  by  stroking  the 
backs  of  the  hands  with  the  teeth  of  the  combs. 
She  became  relaxed  and  drowsy  from  this 
stroking,  and  finally  fell  asleep  and  slept  almost 
through  the  night — perfectly  free  from  pain. 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  67 

"Case  2.  Primipara,  thirty-seven  years  old. 
This  woman  had  a  badly  retroflexed  uterus  (a 
womb  which  is  tilted  back),  which  seemed  to  re- 
tard the  advancement  of  labor,  for  she  required 
five  hours  for  delivery. 

"She  also  used  the  comb  pressures,  and,  in  ad- 
dition, was  provided  with  a  rough-edged  shal- 
low box,  upon  which  she  pressed  firmly  with  the 
soles  of  her  feet. 

"Four  hours  after  delivery  she  had  sharp 
afterbirth  pains,  which  were  controlled  by  the 
stroking  method  before  described.  This  seemed 
to  give  complete  and  satisfactory  relaxation. 

"There  were  three  other  cases,  all  of  which 
responded  equally  well  to  treatment  by  zone 
analgesia. 

"It  should  be  added  that,  while  the  pain  was 
inhibited,  there  seemed  to  be  no  diminution  in 
the  strength  of  the  uterine  contractions." 

Dr.  Thomas  Mournighan,  of  Providence,  R. 
I.,  has  been,  for  more  than  two  years,  one  of  the 
staunchest  advocates  of  my  methods.  He  has 
had  phenomenally  successful  experiences  in 
goiter,  deafness,  female  irregularities,  and  in  the 
relief  of  pain  and  cure  of  conditions  in  the  gen- 
eral practice  of  medicine. 

Dr.    Mournighan   has   also   had   almost   uni- 


68  ZONE    THERAPY. 

formly  successful  results  with  zone  analgesia  in 
childbirth.  I  quote  from  a  few  of  his  cases. 

"Case  1.  Primipara,  nineteen  years  of  age. 
Suffered  from  furious  attacks  of  vomiting  at  the 
beginning  of  her  pregnancy.  Her  family  physi- 
cian wanted  to  abort  her,  fearing  for  her  life, 
unless  the  attacks  were  checked. 

"She  finally  came  under  my  care.  I  instructed 
her  to  bite  her  tongue  as  hard  as  she  could, 
about  one-third  the  distance  from  the  tip — thus, 
as  you  see,  'attacking'  the  entire  zone  connection. 
This  procedure  controlled  the  vomiting  almost 
immediately,  and  instead  of  becoming  accus- 
tomed to  it,  thereby  losing  its  beneficial  effect, 
she  became,  if  anything,  even  more  susceptible 
to  its  influence. 

"When  she  came  to  term  I  placed  a  rough- 
edged  box  in  the  bed,  for  her  to  press  the  soles 
of  her  feet  on.  I  also  provided  her  with  a  sheet, 
tied  to  the  bed  post,  which  she  gripped  and  pulled 
upon  during  pains.  This,  I  feel  certain,  helps 
pain  relief  by  zone  analgesia — as  well  as  by 
assisting  in  the  mechanics  of  labor.  She  made 
traction  upon  the  sheets  and  pressed  her  feet  on 
the  box  as  the  condition  seemed  to  require,  and, 
as  she  expressed  it,  'got  great  comfort  from  it.' 

"When  the  second  stage  of  labor  came  on — 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  69 

that  stage  where  I  generally  resort  to  chloroform 
—I  made  strong  pressure  over  the  feet,  sinking 
my  thumbs  well  in  over  the  articulation  of  the 
toe  and  foot  joint.  She  was  delivered  in  less 
than  five  hours.  The  afterbirth  came  away  with- 
out the  slightest  pain.  I  was  peculiarly  struck 
by  the  almost  complete  absence  of  labor  exhaus- 
tion." 

"Case  2.  Mother  aged  forty,  ninth  child.  She 
had  had  'the  devil's  own  time'  with  the  last  three 
or  four,  the  attendant  having  been  compelled  to 
use  forceps  in  these  births.  With  her  last  child 
she  had  had  a  bad  laceration  of  the  cervix, 
which,  however,  had  been  skillfully  repaired. 

"I  gave  her  two  aluminum  combs,  the  edges 
of  which  I  had  nicked  with  a  file,  so  as  to 
roughen  them  for  the  thumb  to  press  over. 
There  being  no  box  handy  I  covered  a  coal 
shovel  with  a  towel,  and,  when  the  pains  be- 
came severe,  let  her  press  the  soles  of  her  feet 
against  the  sharp  edge  of  this. 

"Within  3  hours  she  was  delivered — without 
forceps  this  time — of  a  10^  pound  boy — as  clean 
a  delivery  as  I  ever  saw. 

"I  know  it  seems  crazy,  but  any  method  that 
will,  practically  without  pain,  stimulate  women 
who  were  formerly  in  labor  for  from  twelve  to 
fifteen  hours  to  complete  delivery — in  many  in- 


70  ZONE    THERAPY. 

stances  within  three  hours —  is  a  good  method. 
I  shall  continue  its  use,  no  matter  how  foolish 
it  may  appear." 

Another  physician,  who  has  had  a  large  and 
successful  experience  with  zone  therapy,  writes : 

"In  obstetrics  I  have  quite  completely  dis- 
carded chloroform  at  the  close  of  the  second 
stage,  where  I  used  to  almost  always  use  it.  In 
the  first  stage,  zone  therapy  relieves  the  nagging 
pains  without  retarding,  but  rather  promoting 
dilatation.  In  the  second  stage  delivery  is 
hastened.  Women  seem  so  quiet  and  easy  one 
would  think  'there  was  nothing  doing,'  until  on 
examination,  you  are  surprised  to  see  what  has 
been  accomplished.  For  this  work  I  use  a  ser- 
rated strip  of  aluminum  1/16  in.  thick,  imbedded 
in  a  piece  of  wood  of  convenient  size,  or  else  I 
use  a  seven  inch  aluminum  comb,  pressing  the 
teeth  against  the  inner  part  of  the  sole  of  the 
foot,  or  near  the  ball,  alternating  from  one  foot 
to  the  other.  When  I  have  an  assistant  both 
feet  are  manipulated  at  a  time,  and  that  aids 
very  materially.  I  exert  as  much  pressure  as 
the  patient  can  bear  without  pain.  When  I  have 
an  assistant  well  trained  I  am  going  to  try  zone 
therapy  for  instrumental  delivery." 

In  connection  with  the  subject  of  confinement 
and  operations  upon  women  this  report  from 


PAINLESS    CHILDBIRTH.  71 

Dr.  G.  Murray  Edwards,  of  Denver,  Colorado, 
is  of  peculiar  interest: 

"Mrs.  McK.,  age  35;  pregnant  four  and  a 
half  months;  multipara.  Placenta  praevia  (a 
grave  condition,  in  which  the  afterbirth  precedes 
the  child  in  delivery),  aborted  Dec.  5,  1915,  cu- 
rettement  (scraping  out  of  the  uterus),  Dec.  7, 
1915.  Temperature  99,  pulse  80.  This  case  oc- 
curring during  Dr.  White's  lecture  course  in 
Denver,  when  Dr.  Fitzgerald's  pressure  method 
of  analgesia  was  being  discussed,  I  decided  to 
try  it  out  for  the  first  time  on  this  patient.  She 
being  a  very  nervous  woman,  I  felt  a  little  re- 
luctant in  the  experiment.  I  did  not  tell  her, 
however,  I  was  going  to  use  a  new  method,  but 
quietly  placed  three  elastics,  an  eighth  of  an 
inch  wide,  on  each  foot,  one  around  the  large 
toe  at  the  first  joint,  and  one  around  the  others 
similarly  in  pairs. 

"After  fifteen  minutes,  preparing  my  instru- 
ments in  the  meantime,  I  told  her  we  were  ready, 
and  while  we  did  not  intend  to  use  chloroform, 
instructed  her  carefully  to  tell  me  immediately 
if  she  felt  any  pain  whatsoever.  The  curette- 
ment  was  conducted  in  every  detail  as  though  she 
were  under  general  anesthesia,  and  as  I  ques- 
tioned her  frequently  as  to  pain,  she  always  came 
back  with  a  smile  and  a  negative  reply. 


72  ZONE    THERAPY. 

"We  removed  fully  a  teacupful  of  placental 
tissue  in  about  ten  minutes,  while  the  patient 
passed  the  time  joking,  and  when  finished  as- 
sured me  she  felt  much  better  than  when  we 
started,  as  she  was  nervous  looking  forward  to 
the  anesthetic.  This  I  consider  a  typical  case, 
and  have  no  misgivings  as  to  its  working  gen- 
erally." 

In  similar  strain  scores  of  letters  tell  of  the 
successes  attending  the  employment  of  this 
method  in  labor,  and  in  operations  upon  women. 

Now,  I  do  not  contend  that  a  few  score,  or  a 
few  hundred  swallows  make  a  summer,  but  their 
presence  undoubtedly  indicates  that  summer 
may  be  well  on  the  way. 

All  this  may  sound  foolish  in  the  extreme. 
Yet  there  are  many  other  things  equally  foolish 
in  the  practice  of  medicine.  And  if  zone 
analgesia  will  do  what  we  claim  for  it,  it  may 
well  be  taken  gently  by  the  hand,  lifted  out  of 
the  foolish  class,  and  placed  among  the  ultra- 
sensible  procedures — where,  by  right,  it  belongs. 


CHAPTER  7. 

ZONE  THERAPY   FOR  WOMEN. 

IN  the  eternal  fitness  of  things  there  would 
be  something  radically  wrong  if  zone 
therapy  did  not  offer  some  especial  and 
particular  help  to  women.  It  is  a  satisfaction  to 
state  that  the  eternal  fitness  of  things  is  right, 
as  usual.  For  zone  therapy  is  as  unique  in  this 
connection  as  in  most  of  its  other  applications. 

Many  of  the  things  it  does  are  positively 
startling.  And  yet  they  become  commonplace, 
after  one  has  been  in  the  work  for  a  time.  One 
of  the  most  striking  cases  that  has  yet  come  to 
my  attention  came  in  the  form  of  a  letter  of 
thanks  from  a  mother  of  a  16  year  old  girl.  I 
never  saw  either.  The  mother,  however,  wrote 
me  that  her  daughter,  who  had  never  menstruated 
was,  some  time  ago,  instructed  by  a  patient  of 
mine  to  take  the  handle  of  a  tablespoon  and  make 
strong  pressure  upon  the  tongue  (a  tongue  de- 
pressor would  be  more  appropriate),  as  far  back 
as  she  could  stand  it  without  gagging. 

She  did  so,  and  within  fifteen  minutes  was 
menstruating  profusely,  yet  without  the  slightest 

(73) 


74  ZONE    THERAPY. 

pain  or  discomfort.  In  the  several  months 
which  had  since  intervened,  she  "came  around" 
regularly  every  twenty-eight  days.  The  mother 
who  feared  that  her  daughter  was  going  into  a 
decline,  could  not  refrain  from  writing  me  a 


f'iG.    14.  —  Tongue-pressor    Electrode.      May    be    used    with    or    without 
electricity. 


most  heartfull  letter  of  appreciation  for  what  my 
patient,  through  my  instruction,  had  been  able  to 
do  for  her  daughter.  I  call  this  good  preventive 
medicine. 

Painful  menstruation   (dysmenorrhoea),  also 
yields  like  magic  to  the  potent  pressure  of  a 


ZONE  THERAPY  FOR  WOMEN.  75 

probe  applied  to  the  posterior  (back)  wall  of  the 
pharynx.  But  the  tongue  pressures  are,  in  the 
majority  of  cases,  quite  as  effective.  For  pain 
in  the  back  or  thighs,  preceding  or  during  men- 
struation, pressure  with  the  tip  of  the  index 
finger  on  the  posterior  wall  of  the  pharynx  on 
the  median  line  and  to  the  right  and  left  of  same, 
will  almost  uniformly  give  relief. 

A  broad,  rough-surfaced  tongue  depressor 
(see  Fig.  14)  is  best  for  the  purpose.  But  if  this 
is  not  available,  the  handle  of  a  large  spoon  or 
the  handle  of  a  tooth  brush  may  be  used. 

This  should  be  applied  to  the  tongue  three- 
quarters  of  the  way  back  and  on  the  median  line. 
The  patient's  head  should  be  held  rigid,  and  the 
lower  jaw  supported,  to  the  end  that  stronger 
pressure  can  be  made.  It  is  well  to  have  the 
physician  or  some  male  member  of  the  family 
officiate  in  this,  as  the  patient  may  not  be  inclined 
to  use  the  requisite  amount  of  force. 

The  pressure  should  be  held  firmly  for  two 
minutes.  Then  it  should  be  relaxed  and  the  point 
of  focus  changed  slightly.  Or  the  instrument 
may  be  turned  or  rotated  from  side  to  side,  at 
one  minute  intervals. 

Many  patients  who  are  obliged  to  go  to  bed 
for  two  or  three  days  each  month,  after  a  course 
of  this  treatment,  are  completely  relieved  of  all 


76  ZONE   THERAPY. 

distress.  Indeed,  some  of  these  hardly  knew 
they  were  "coming  sick." 

It  might  be  added  that  pressure  exerted  on  the 
thumb,  first  and  second  fingers  of  both  hands 
helps  materially  in  this  work.  And  one  of  the 
most  comforting  factors  in  the  practice  is  that 
patients  are  usually  quite  as  well  the  next  morn- 
ing as  they  are  even  directly  after  the  most  suc- 
cessful treatment. 

Occasionally  the  use  of  the  metal  comb  on  the 
front  of  the  hand,  "combing"  thoroly  the  region 
of  the  thumb,  first  and  second  fingers  as  far  as 
to  the  wrists — has  given  excellent  results.  But 
the  tongue  pressures  are  most  uniformly  success- 
ful. 

While  I  have  seldom  heard  of  a  miscarriage 
being  induced  by  these  pressures,  yet  I  believe  a 
note  of  warning  should  be  sounded,  cautioning 
against  the  use  of  the  tongue  pressures,  par- 
ticularly during  the  early  months  of  pregnancy. 

For  it  is  quite  conceivable  that  abortion  might 
follow  drastic  tongue  treatment.  It  would  be 
far  better  during  these  months  to  depend  upon 
the  finger  pressures  or  the  comb  for  treatment  of 
these  zones. 

Also,  if  there  is  a  too-profuse  and  too-frequent 
menstruation,  severe  tongue  pressures  should  be 
avoided.  In  these  conditions  gentle  stroking  on 


ZONE  THERAPY   FOR  WOMEN.  77 

the  front  of  the  hands  with  a  wire  hair  brush 
or  the  teeth  of  the  metal  comb  has  given  best 
results.  And  this  same  procedure  may  be  con- 
fidently resorted  to  to  prevent  threatened  abor- 
tion. 

While  not  confined  to  women,  yet  women  are 
by  far  more  generally  afflicted  with  constipation 
and  hemorrhoids  than  are  men.  Their  sedentary 
habits,  tight  lacing,  and  repugnance  to  water 
drinking  make  them  peculiarly  susceptible  to  the 
costive  habit — which  in  turn,  through  engorge- 
ment of  the  hemorrhoidal  veins,  causes  piles. 

I  mention  these  subjects  here  because  the  treat- 
ment for  constipation  and  hemorrhoids  is  ident- 
ical with  that  given  for  painful  or  suppressed 
menstruation. 

The  results  in  constipation  are,  in  some  in- 
stances, absolutely  astonishing.  I  know  of  one 
woman,  constipated  for  fifteen  years,  who  never 
knew  what  it  meant  to  have  a  natural  movement 
of  the  bowels.  She  grasped  the  chair  seat  with 
the  tips  of  her  fingers  and  thumbs,  putting  all 
her  strength  into  this  grip  —  so  as  partly  to 
desensitize  the  pain  of  tongue  pressure,  and 
thereby  be  able  to  stand  a  more  drastic  treatment. 
Then  the  tongue  was  firmly  pressed  for  nine 
minutes  in  the  manner  before  described. 

Her    bowels    moved    within    fifteen    minutes 


78  ZONE    THERAPY. 

afterwards,  and  for  a  year  or  longer  she  has 
never  had  to  take  another  cathartic.  Another 
case  was  cleared  up  two  years  ago,  and  has  had 
no  return  of  the  former  trouble. 

These,  however,  are  the  extraordinary  and  ex- 
ceptional cases.  For  routine  treatment  it  may  be 
well  to  use  the  pressures  for  a  considerable 
period  of  time,  so  that  their  stimulating  effect 
may  tend  to  create  a  "habit"  in  the  peristaltic 
muscles  of  the  bowel.  For  the  cure  cannot  be 
considered  complete  until  this  "habit"  is  firmly 
established. 

The  pain,  bleeding  and  swelling  of  piles  is  also 
helped  by  these  same  procedures. 

The  point  to  be  most  emphatically  dwelt  upon 
in  connection  with  the  treatment  of  these  condi- 
tions is  that  "absent  treatment,"  or  lick-and-a- 
promise  narriby-pambyism,  isn't  of  any  avail. 
The  pressures  must  be  made  by  some  one  who 
has  more  sympathy  with  the  patient's  ultimate 
good  than  he  has  for  her  present  temporary  dis- 
comfort, and  who  will  administer  a  good  honest 
treatment — preferably  while  the  patient  does  all 
she  can — by  tightly  clasping  the  hands  on  the  in- 
terlocked fingers,  or  by  grasping  the  chair  or  a 
table  with  the  finger  tips — to  reduce  the  sensi- 
tivity of  the  zones  operated  upon. 


ZONE  THERAPY   FOR  WOMEN.  79 

If  zone  therapy  is  used  in  this  manner,  the  re- 
sults will  amaze  and  delight.  For  no  method  yet 
evolved  for  the  treatment  of  these  disorders  even 
remotely  approximates  zone  therapy  in  point  of 
efficacy. 


CHAPTER  8. 

RELAXING    NERVOUS    TENSION. 

PERHAPS  you  may  not  do  it.  You  have 
such  splendid  control  over  yourself.  But 
you  know  many  people  who,  when  angry, 
or  when  suffering  great  physical  pain,  sink  their 
teeth  into  their  lip.  Sometimes  they  bite  hard 
enough  to  start  the  blood.  Others  clinch  their 
teeth  and  hands,  and  double  their  toes  up  in  their 
shoes.  Why  do  you  suppose  they  do  this  ?  They 
do  these,  and  many  other  natural  and  apparently 
inevitable  things,  because  they  are  instinctive  and 
scientific,  and  because  Nature  knows  her  busi- 
ness. We  have  done  and  shall  continue  to  do 
them  involuntarily  and  automatically,  because 
they  relieve  pain  and  nerve  tension,  because  they 
produce  a  form  of  analgesia,  or  pain-deadening, 
similar  to  that  which  follows  the  injection  of 
water  or  some  anesthetic  solution  into  a  sensory 
nerve.  If  you  stop  and  think  for  a  moment  many 
examples  of  this  inhibition — as  it  is  called — will 
recur. 

One  of  the  most  interesting,  from  our  stand- 
point, was  that  of  a  young  school  teacher,  sub- 

(80) 


RELAXING  NERVOUS  TENSION.  81 

ject  to  cataleptic  fits,  who,  when  she  felt  one  of 
her  fits  coming  on,  stepped  on  her  right  toes  with 
all  the  weight  she  could  throw  on  the  left  foot,  at 
the  same  time  grasping  the  right  wrist  firmly. 
Often  those  near — if  notified  in  time — would  pro- 
duce the  pressures  for  her.  In  this  way  the  young 
woman  managed  to  break  up  or  prevent  all  except 
severe  and  sudden  attacks. 

It  was  subsequently  found  that  this  patient  had 
a  chronic  irritation  in  the  right  ovary,  and  also  a 
strained  condition  of  the  muscles  of  accommoda- 
tion in  the  right  eye.  When  these  conditions 
were  cleared  up  by  proper  remedial  measures 
and  correction,  the  cataleptic  attacks  ceased. 

The  fact  of  relief  having  followed  in  many  in- 
stances her  "inhibiting"  the  right-sided  zones  in- 
dicated the  possible  source  of  trouble.  And  by 
painstakingly  examining  the  organs  in  these 
zones  the  cause  of  her  condition  was  located  and 
finally  overcome. 

So,  as  a  means  of  diagnosis  zone  therapy  has 
an  immense  value.  Its  curative  effects,  however, 
are  most  valuable  and  significant.  Many  of  the 
gravest  nerve  conditions  —  conditions  which 
failed  to  respond  to  the  most  skilled  medical  treat- 
ment obtainable  anywhere — have  been  completely 
and  permanently  cured  by  the  application  of  the 
proper  pressures — properly  made. 
6 


82  ZONE    THERAPY. 

I  recall  a  very  grave  case  of  neurosis  —  a 
writer's  cramp — accompanying  a  neurasthenic 
condition.  This  lady — unusually  alert  and  intel- 
ligent— was  a  physical  and  nervous  wreck.  Sleep- 
less, harassed  by  "nerves"  in  their  most  aggra- 
vated form,  she  was  unable  to  hold  a  pen,  or  to 
write  more  than  a  few  minutes  at  a  time,  until, 
on  account  of  the  pain  and  twitching  of  the  arm, 
wrist,  and  fingers,  she  was  forced  to  desist.  She 
could  no  more  have  picked  up  and  threaded  a 
needle — let  alone  have  sewed  with  it — than  she 
could  have  operated  an  aeroplane.  She  was  also 
deaf  from  a  middle  ear  trouble. 

Several  months'  treatment,  using  the  aluminum 
comb  across  the  front  and  back  of  the  hands  and 
on  the  finger  tips,  and  daily  employment  of  the 
tongue  depressor  for  four  or  five  minutes, 
brought  about  a  complete  change  in  the  patient's 
condition. 

It  relaxed  the  terrible  nervous  tension — which 
was  particularly  marked  along  the  course  of  the 
spine — enabling  her  to  sleep  at  night,  and  awake 
thoroly  rested  and  refreshed  in  the  morning.  The 
writer's  cramp  was  also  completely  cleared  up.  A 
number  of  other  conditions  were  also  corrected, 
and  the  hearing  was  improved  quite  50%. 

This  lady  has  since  resumed  her  occupation  as 
a  private  secretary — a  position  she  was  forced  by 


RELAXING  NERVOUS  TENSION.  83 

ill  health  to  relinquish  more  than  two  years  ago — 
and  now  writes  for  hours  at  a  stretch,  without 
any  return  of  the  cramp  in  the  hand  and  arm. 

And,  most  convincing  of  all,  she  can  now  not 
only  pick  up,  thread,  and  hold  a  needle — some- 
thing she  had  not  been  able  to  do  for  years — 
but  she  can  sew  steadily  for  two  or  three  hours, 
and  feel  no  disagreeable  effects  from  this  fem- 
inine debauch. 

A  peculiarly  satisfactory  characteristic  in  all 
these  cases  is  that  the  improvement  is  even  more 
apparent  the  "morning  after"  than  it  is  imme- 
diately after  the  treatment. 

Another  case  of  neuritis  in  the  arm  and 
shoulder  (brachial  neuritis)  for  more  than  six 
years  had  been  unable  to  raise  his  arm  higher 
than  the  shoulder.  For  the  two  months  previous 
to  treatment  he  had  been  obliged  to  carry  it  in  a 
sling.  The  slightest  movement  of  the  arm  brought 
about  a  paroxysm  of  agonizing  pain. 

A  number  of  hollowed-out  spring  clothespins 
were  clamped  on  the  fingers  of  the  affected  arm 
and  left  there  for  twelve  minutes.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  this  time  the  clamps  were  removed. 

The  patient  gingerly  took  his  arm  from  its  sup- 
port, and  after  a  minute  or  two  spent  in  experi- 
menting with  it,  moved  it  freely  up  behind  his 


84  ZONE    THERAPY. 

head  and  swung  it  behind  his  back  in  a  sweeping 
motion. 

It  was  subsequently  found  that  this  man  also 
had  an  osteopathic  lesion,  which  was  reduced  by 
Dr.  Reid  Kellogg,  and  after  a  few  weeks'  "home 
treatment" — consisting  of  five  minute  applica- 
tions of  moderately  tight  rubber  bands  around 
the  ends  of  the  fingers — he  reported  himself  as 
well — and  has  remained  so  for  more  than  ten 
months. 

For  sciatic  neuritis  it  is  found  that  deep  pres- 
sures with  the  teeth  of  an  aluminum  or  steel  comb 
made  upon  the  toes  are  much  more  effective  than 
when  made  upon  the  fingers.  When  pain  is  most 
severe  on  the  back  of  the  leg  pressures  should  be 
made  upon  the  ball  (sole)  of  the  foot.  (See  Fig. 
15.)  When  the  front  of  the  leg  pains  also,  the 
top  of  the  foot  should  also  be  pressed. 

While  we  are  on  the  subject  of  sciatica,  I  might 
emphasize  the  importance  of  a  careful  examina- 
tion of  the  condition  of  the  wisdom  teeth.  For 
very  frequently  we  have  found  this  to  be  the 
origin  of  the  sciatic  nerve  trouble. 

Another  interesting  case,  successfully  treated 
with  clothespins,  was  that  of  a  young  man  suf- 
fering from  hand  tremors,  insomnia,  and  nerv- 
ous exhaustion. 

He  had  his  finger  tips  clamped  daily  for  a 


RELAXING  NERVOUS  TENSION. 


85 


week.  Then  three  times  more,  at  intervals  of 
three  days.  After  the  eighth  treatment  he  had 
no  further  trouble  with  tremor,  slept  like  a  baby, 
and  was  apparently  relieved  of  all  nervous 

symptoms. 


FIG.  15.  —  Showing  a  method  of  treating  rheumatism  or  sciatica  by 
treating  all  five  zones  on  the  back  of  the  leg  and  body. 

We  have  found  it  helpful,  if  the  patient  has 
a  good  set  of  teeth,  to  have  him  clinch  the  teeth, 
and  also  the  hands,  for  several  minutes  at  a  time, 
three  or  four  times  daily.  This  produces  an 
exaggerated  degree  of  relaxation,  which  is  most 
helpful  in  overcoming  nervous  conditions. 


86  ZONE    THERAPY. 

Most  of  our  patients  are  also  instructed  to 
"yawn  prodigiously,"  and  stretch.  This  stim- 
ulates a  healthy  action  of  the  sympathetic  nerves 
in  all  the  zones,  and  cannot  fail  but  be  most 
beneficial.  Sometimes  the  insomnia  of  neuras- 
thenia may  be  effectively  overcome  by  tightly 
clasping  the  hands  —  interlocking  the  fingers  as 
shown  in  Fig.  16,  or  pressing  the  finger  tips 
firmly  together,  and  holding  this  position  for  ten 
or  fifteen  minutes  —  unless  sleep  should  come 
before  this  and  relax  the  clasp. 

Also,  the  clinching  or  wriggling  of  the  toes  is 
of  benefit  to  a  neurasthenic.  In  fact,  I  am  con- 
vinced that  the  method  of  relieving  fatigue  in 
marching  troops,  discovered  by  Drs.  DeFleury 
and  Jacques  —  of  the  French  army,  is  largely 
an  application  of  the  principles  of  zone  therapy. 

The  French  surgeon's  idea  is  temporarily  to 
expel  the  blood  from  the  legs  by  raising  them. 
The  soldiers  remove  their  shoes  and  lie  prone  on 
the  ground,  close  to  a  tree  or  wall,  with  heads 
slightly  elevated.  They  then  raise  their  legs 
against  the  wall,  stretching  upwards  as  far  as 
limb  limitations  permit. 

In  this  attitude  the  toes  and  ankles  are  worked 
or  "wriggled"  briskly.  Then  the  knees  are 
flexed  and  extended  a  half  dozen  times  or  more. 


RELAXING  NERVOUS  TENSION.  87 


I-'IG.  16.  —  Patient  seventy-two  years  of  age  with  carcinoma  of  left 
side  of  tongue,  jaw,  and  pharynx.  Two  days  before  this  picture  was 
taken  the  patient  was  unable  to  open  his  mouth.  The  folded  hands  and 
open  mouth  indicate  not  only  relaxation  of  the  jaws,  but  the  method  in 
which  it  was  brought  about.  Dr.  J.  W.  Hogan  painlessly  extracted  eighteen 
teeth  for  this  patient  under  pressure  anesthesia.  By  pressure  anesthesia 
or  analgesia  we  mean  zone  anesthesia  or  analgesia.  To  be  complete  the 
part  must  be  attacked  through  the  zone  or  zones  involved  from  head  to 
foot.  The  hands  tightly  clasped  as  above  from  three  to  ten  minutes  several 
times  daily  is  a  most  excellent  way  to  relax  the  entire  body.  It  also  pro- 
motes excretion,  absorption,  etc.  Hands  in  this  position  should  be  reversed 
from  time  to  time  in  order  to  bring  about  complete  relaxation  of  all  zones. 
Pressure  from  three  to  twenty  minutes  several  times  daily. 


88 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FIG.  17.  —  Patient  with  right  hand  in  this  picture  is  indicating  with 
index  and  middle  finger  the  location  of  his  pain,  and  how  he  is  over- 
coming it  thru  pressure  on  the  arm  of  the  chair  with  the  tips  of  the 
thumb  and  fingers  of  the  left  hand.  We  seldom  are  obliged  to  resort  to 
drugs  for  pain,  even  in  malignancy. 


RELAXING  NERVOUS  TENSION.  89 

A  body  of  men,  apparently  in  the  last  stages  of 
exhaustion,  recuperate  their  energies  with  from 
five  to  fifteen  minutes'  exercise  of  this  kind. 

It  can  readily  be  seen  how,  by  these  exercises, 
all  the  zones  in  the  body  would  be  stimulated  to 
a  normal  condition.  And  the  fact  that  the  exer- 
cises practiced  are  successful  on  a  wholesale 
scale  proves  the  principle  sound. 

One  of  the  most  important  things  Americans 
have  to  learn  is  how  to  relax.  Anything  that 
will  teach  them  to  do  this  should  prove  a  boon. 

Therefore  I  feel  certain  that,  before  many 
years,  the  principles  and  practices  of  zone 
therapy  will  be  as  familiar  and  universally  ap- 
plied as  are  now  the  principles  of  domestic 
hygiene  or  the  practice  of  sterilizing  baby 
bottles.  And  then  zone  therapy  will  add  to  the 
depth  and  breadth,  as  well  as  to  the  length  of 
human  life. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

CURING    LUMBAGO    WITH    A    COMB. 

THERE  is  a  solid  and  substantial  satis- 
faction in  having  lumbago.  For  we 
know,  without  being  told,  that  we  have 
it,  and  we  don't  have  to  work  our  imagination 
overtime  providing  it  with  symptoms. 

Also,  lumbago  offers  less  encouragement  to 
mental  or  psychological  healing  than  most  any- 
thing ordinary  we  could  gather  up  —  except  a 
broken  leg,  a  crop  of  boils,  or  an  abscessed  tooth. 
And  the  same  thing  applies  to  its  sisters-in-law, 
rheumatism  and  sciatica. 

Therefore,  anything  that  cures  lumbago, 
rheumatism,  sciatica,  or  similar  afflictions,  must 
be  able  to  "deliver  the  goods." 

On  this  basis  zone  therapy  must  be  considered 
one  of  our  most  valuable  methods  for  treating 
these  obstinate  conditions.  Naturally  it  is  not 
always  successful.  Neither  are  the  salicylates, 
hot  mud  baths,  porous  plasters,  nor  having  teeth 
pulled.  And  this  is  no  more  an  apology  for 
zone  therapy  than  it  is  for  medicine. 

Lumbago,  as  a  rule,  responds  very  quickly  and 

(90) 


CURING  LUMBAGO  WITH  A  COMB.  91 

kindly  to  zone  therapy.  Cases  which  come  to 
the  office  "all  doubled  up"  are  straightened  out 
-  frequently  in  one  treatment  —  and  wend 
their  homeward  way  rejoicing. 

The  weapon  which  has  given  us  best  results 
in  attacking  lumbago  and  kindred  affections  is  a 
common,  dull-pointed  aluminum  comb,  such  as 
may  be  procured  in  most  bird  stores  for  dog- 
combing  purposes.  The  teeth  of  this  are  pressed 
firmly  on  the  palms  of  the  hands  and  on  the 
palmar  surface  of  the  thumb,  first,  second  and 
third  fingers.  In  order  to  get  the  best  results 
the  pressures  should  be  continued  for  from  ten 
to  twenty  minutes.  Occasionally  it  may  be 
necessary  to  work  also  on  the  "web"  between  the 
thumb  and  first  finger,  and  also  between  the  first 
and  second  finger. 

Some  zone  therapy  enthusiasts  prefer  to  begin 
operations  on  the  tips  of  the  thumb,  first,  second 
and  third  fingers  —  gradually  working  up  the 
palms  of  the  hands  and  spending  five  minutes  — 
for  good  measure  —  on  the  wrists. 

Remember  always  that  the  palmar  surfaces 
of  the  hands  and  fingers  are  to  be  attacked  for 
pains  anywhere  on  the  back,  and  the  top  or 
(back)  surfaces  of  the  hands  and  fingers  for 
any  trouble  on  the  front  of  the  body,  arms  or 
legs.  This  may  seem  rather  confusing  at  first, 


yZ  ZONE    THERAPY. 

but  a  little  thought  will  make  clear  why,  what 
are  commonly  known  as  the  back  of  the  hands 
are  really  the  front  or  top,  and  correspond  with 
the  front  or  top  of  the  feet.  The  palms  of  the 
hands  correspond  with  the  soles  of  the  feet. 

It  is  also  interesting  to  note  that  frequently 
there  are  found  areas  which  are  extra  sensitive 
to  the  pressures  of  the  comb. 

These  areas  correspond  to  the  most  painful 
zones  in  other  sections  of  the  body.  For  in- 
stance, if  firm  pressure  on  palmar  surfaces  of 
right  hand  elicits  more  pain  through  the  third 
zone  in  the  hand,  if  the  patient  has  already  com- 
plained of  pain  in  his  back,  such  pain  will  usually 
be  found  in  the  third  zone,  and  this  holds  good 
where  pain  is  concerned  throughout  the  body. 

If  these  sensitive  areas  are  found,  by  com- 
mencing gently  and  gradually  increasing  the 
force  of  the  pressure,  toleration  can  be  estab- 
lished. In  developing  this  toleration,  the  lumbag 
is  usually  relieved. 

Some  perfectly  amazing  results  have  been  re- 
ported from  the  comb  method  of  treatment,  par- 
ticularly in  lumbago.  One  case,  a  minister  who, 
for  weeks,  had  been  unable  even  to  turn  in  bed 
without  assistance,  was,  after  a  twenty-minute 
treatment,  able  to  arise  and  walk  unaided.  He 
was  entirely  relieved  of  pain  and  discomfort 


CURING  LUMBAGO  WITH  A  COMB.  93 

within  a  few  hours,  and  the  next  day  was  "'up 
and  around."  Relief  almost  always  follows  the 
first  treatment,  apparently  irrespective  as  to  the 
cause  of  the  lumbago.  I  recall  a  recent  case 
which  had  persisted  for  more  than  three  months. 
This  gentleman  had  taken  practically  every  form 
of  treatment  that  could  be  recommended  by  the 
most  able  specialists,  had  even  been  to  Hot 
Springs,  without  any  except  transient  benefit. 
He  was  bent  almost  double,  and  for  many  weeks 
had  not  been  able  to  stand  erect.  This  patient 
was  given  two  aluminum  combs  and  told  to 
squeeze  them  for  ten  or  fifteen  minutes,  while 
waiting  in  the  ante-room.  After  being  brought 
into  the  office,  his  hands  were  thoroly  "combed" 
by  pressure,  from  finger  tip  to  wrist. 

He  straightened  out  completely  after  this  first 
treatment,  and  expressed  himself  as  entirely 
relieved  from  pain.  He  received  a  similar  treat- 
ment the  following  day  —  after  which  he  went 
his  way  rejoicing. 

These  results  are  practically  uniform.  I 
know  of  many  scores  of  patients  thus  cured  with 
a  comb. 

Sometimes  equally  good  results  follow  from 
fastening  hollowed-out  spring  clothespins  on  the 
tips  of  the  fingers,  corresponding  to  the  zones  in 
which  the  lumbago  holds  forth.  Or  even  from 


94  ZONE    THERAPY. 

binding   heavy   bands    around    these    fingers  - 
leaving  these  in  position  five  or  ten  minutes  at 
a  time  —  unless  the   finger  becomes  badly  dis- 
colored sooner,  in  which  case  the  pressure  must 
be  temporarily  removed. 

One  zone  therapy  enthusiast,  who  claims  that 
"Treat  It  By  Zone  Therapy"  should  be  hung  in 
every  doctor's  office,  while  on  a  pilgrimage  to  a 
Shriners'  Convention,  noticed  that  the  conductor 
of  the  train  walked  "all  doubled  up"  and  seemed 
to  be  suffering  great  pain.  It  developed  that 
the  railroad  man  had  a  "misery  in  his  back,"  had 
given  up  work,  and  had  been  in  a  sanitarium  for 
three  weeks  —  without  obtaining  much  relief  - 
and  also  that  for  the  three  days  prior  to  his  re- 
suming work,  he  had  not  been  able  to  "straighten 
up,"  nor  make  any  sudden  move,  without  suffer- 
ing excruciatingly. 

He  was  invited  to  come  into  the  smoking  com- 
partment for  a  few  minutes,  where  the  doctor 
put  rubber  bands  on  the  thumb  and  forefinger  of 
each  of  the  trainman's  hands,  and  at  the  same 
time  made  firm  pressure  with  his  thumb-nails  on 
these  ligatured  fingers. 

The  conductor  was  not  informed  of  the  pur- 
pose of  this  procedure,  so  his  imagination  had 
nothing  to  work  on. 

After  holding  his  fingers  in  this  manner  for 


CURING  LUMBAGO  WITH  A  COMB.  95 

about  ten  minutes  the  whistle  blew,  and  the  con- 
ductor had  suddenly  to  leave  his  chair.  He 
straightened  up  and  went  out  "on  the  run." 

When  he  came  back  he  laughed  and  said: 
''This  is  the  first  time  in  six  weeks  I've  gotten  up 
or  moved  without  pain.  What  in  thunder  have 
those  little  rubber  bands  to  do  with  lumbago, 
anyway  ?" 

The  doctor  saw  this  man  before  leaving  the 
train  two  hours  afterwards,  and  the  trainman 
volunteered  the  information  that  "so  far  as  the 
lumbago  is  concerned  I  have  no  more  feeling 
than  a  fish."  And  these  results  can  be  dupli- 
cated by  any  one  who  will  study  the  zone  charts 
(Figures  1  and  2),  and  apply  the  simple  technic 
outlined. 

Naturally,  in  sciatica,  and  in  articular  or  joint 
rheumatism,  the  results  have  not  been  so  uni- 
formly favorable.  For  sciatica  may  be  due  to 
hip  joint  dislocation.  Indeed,  one  of  our  most 
famous  bone  surgeons  claims  that  all  cases  of 
sciatica  result  from  a  twist,  or  subluxation  of 
the  hip  joint  which  certainly  is  not  true  of  those 
cases  cured  with  a  comb,  or  by  electricity,  or  by 
some  medical  measure. 

In  treating  sciatica  particular  attention  must 
be  given  the  "hip  area"  of  the  hand  on  the  same 
side  as  the  sciatica.  This  means  that  the  palmar 


96  ZONE    THERAPY. 

surface  of  the  ring  and  little  finger  and  the  palm 
of  the  hand  on  that  side,  as  well  as  the  "edge" 
of  the  palm,  running  up  over  the  top  of  the  hand 
must  be  thoroughly  "combed." 

But  the  best  and  most  rapid  relief  for  sciatica 
is  usually  secured  by  "attacking"  the  soles  of  the 
feet  —  using  the  comb  in  the  same  manner  and 
for  the  same  areas  as  described  for  the  hands. 
In  other  words,  by  manipulating  the  zones  in  the 
feet  corresponding  to  the  zones  in  the  hands. 

Dr.  George  Starr  White,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia, has  invented  a  mechanical  device  for  this 
purpose,  consisting  of  a  piece  of  hard  wood 
about  five  inches  in  length,  cut  with  deep  screw- 
like  threads  (see  Figures  13  and  15).  A  heavy, 
smooth  rope  is  attached  to  each  end  of  this  im- 
plement of  battle,  and  the  patient  uses  it  with  a 
long,  strong  pull  for  five  or  ten  minutes  at  a 
time  —  repeating  the  maneuver  several  times 
daily.  Possibly  any  rough-surfaced,  home-made 
device  might  give  equally  good  results. 

In  acute  articular  rheumatism,  where  there 
are  no  gross  pathological  changes  or  stiffening 
in  the  joints,  splendid  results  have  followed  the 
use  of  combs.  It  should  be  remembered  that  the 
hip  area  corresponds  with  the  shoulder  on  the 
same  side,  the  knee  with  the  elbow,  and  the  ankle 
with  the  wrist,  etc.,  and  pain  is  often  overcome 


CURING  LUMBAGO  WITH  A  COMB.  97 

more  quickly  by  attacking  corresponding  parts 
with  pressure  or  stimulation. 

One  old  lady  who  suffered  terribly  in  the  joints 
of  both  hands,  and  who  had  not  been  able  to  sleep 
for  weeks  without  an  opiate,  experienced  com- 
plete relief  after  a  half  dozen  treatments  with 
the  comb  over  the  tips  of  her  fingers  and  thumb. 
And  she  was  able  to  sleep  soundly  thereafter 
without  the  use  of  her  usual  hypnotic. 

A  very  interesting  case  of  gonorrheal  arthritis 
was  reported  recently.  This  man's  right  knee 
joint  was  so  painful  that  he  could  not  bear  to 
have  it  touched.  To  bend  the  right  leg  at  the 
knee  was  out  of  the  question. 

Two  minutes'  pressure  on  the  top  and  bottom, 
as  well  as  on  the  tip  of  the  big  toe,  completely  re- 
lieved the  pain,  and  upon  testing  the  joint  the 
soreness  seemed  to  have  vanished.  The  doctor 
then  began  carefully  bending  the  knee,  and  to  his 
surprise,  and  to  the  amazement  of  the  patient  — 
who  hadn't  the  slightest  idea  what  was  being  at- 
tempted—  the  knee  could  be  flexed  (bent)  per- 
fectly, without  any  pain  whatever. 

As  this  doctor  makes  a  specialty  of  treating 
painful  joints  by  means  of  heat,  light,  mud  baths, 
and  electricity,  and  has  had  a  great  deal  of  ex- 
perience in  this  work,  we  were  much  gratified  to 
hear  him  say  that  of  all  the  cases  he  had  ever 

7 


98  ZONE    THERAPY. 

treated  he  never  had  anything  seem  so  miracu- 
lous as  this.  He  further  stated  that  he  had 
tried  all  his  methods  of  treatment  to  alleviate 
this  man's  pain  and  to  be  able  to  flex  the  knee, 
but  without  avail;  yet  zone  therapy,  applied  at 
the  proper  zone,  brought  about  almost  immediate 
results. 

As  demonstrating  a  peculiar  phase  of  zone 
therapy,  and  showing  how  great  aches  from 
little  corns  may  grow,  here  is  a  very  interesting 
and  instructive  case.  A  patient,  suffering  from 
rheumatism  in  the  left  shoulder  and  arm,  had, 
for  more  than  three  weeks,  been  unable  to  sleep 
on  account  of  the  pain.  He  had  a  small  callous 
growth  on  the  tip  of  his  left  thumb,  correspond- 
ing to  the  zone  in  which  the  pain  was  located. 
This  was  removed,  and  pressures  were  made 
with  a  comb  on  the  place  where  the  finger  corn 
had  formerly  held  forth.  Within  four  days  he 
was  completely  cured. 

And  this  reminds  me  that  a  corn  doctor  is  a 
valuable  aid  in  pressure  therapy  work.  For 
time  and  again  I  have  seen  pains  as  far  away  as 
a  headache  relieved  by  clearing  up  the  zone  oc- 
cupied and  irritated  by  a  large  pugnacious  corn, 
which  was  the  actual  cause  of  the  headache  - 
foolish-sounding  as  it  may  seem. 

A  little  boy  with  an  aggravated  case  of  "wry 


CURING  LUMBAGO  WITH  A  COMB.  99 

neck"  had,  for  months,  slept  upon  sand  bags  to 
give  him  neck  support.  I  cauterized  the  necks 
of  his  teeth  (always  look  to  the  condition  of  the 
teeth  in  wry  neck)  with  a  fine  platinum  point 
cautery  (which  is  merely  a  direct  way  of  stim- 
ulating all  the  zones),  and  in  a  few  days  this 
youngster  was  up  and  running  around  as  well  as 
ever. 

Other  cases  of  wry  neck  have  been  quite  as 
readily  cleared  up  by  pressures  on  appropriate 
fingers  or  the  palm  of  the  hand  on  the  side  in- 
volved or  by  pressing  with  a  cotton-tipped  probe 
on  the  proper  zones  on  the  posterior  wall  of  the 
throat,  or  on  the  under  surface  of  the  tongue  and 
on  the  floor  of  the  mouth  under  the  tongue. 

Most  medical  men,  without  stopping  longer 
than  two  seconds  to  think  about  it,  will  affirm 
that  all  these  things  are  ridiculous  and  absurd. 

This,  you  remember,  was  what  contemporary 
scientists  told  Galen  and  Harvey,  and  also  what 
the  astronomers  told  Galileo. 

We  spoke  in  a  similar  strain  of  radio  activity, 
the  fourth  dimension,  wireless  telegraphy,  and 
aerial  navigation. 

Many  erudite  members  of  the  medical  profes- 
sion claim  that  zone  therapy  and  zone  analgesia 
might  be  interesting  if  found  in  Gulliver's 
Travels  or  Munchausen's  Romances,  but  that 


100  ZONE    THERAPY. 

emphatically  they  have  no  place  in  medical  liter- 
ature. For  every  one  knows  that  an  egg  can- 
not be  made  to  stand  on  end. 

Yet  we  are  standing  this  medical  egg  on  end 
every  day. 

And  there  is  no  reason  in  the  world  why  any 
intelligent  man  or  woman,  let  alone  any  intelli- 
gent doctor,  cannot  do  likewise,  and  put  these 
simple  and  helpful  methods  into  practical  appli- 
cation. For  it  doesn't  even  require  faith. 


CHAPTER  X. 

SCRATCHING    THE    HAND    FOR    SICK    STOMACH. 

MANY  of  us  know  that  if  we  are  threat- 
ened with  sneezing  and  we  press  the 
upper  lip  tightly  against  the  teeth  with 
the  fingers,  that  we  can  usually  stop  the  sneeze. 
Also,  that  if  we  drop  a  cold  piece  of  metal  down 
the  back,  or  press  a  piece  of  ice  against  the  back 
of  the  neck,  it  will  frequently  check  nosebleed. 

But  not  many  of  us  know  that  the  reason  these 
things  are  thus  is  because,  by  these  actions,  we 
are  stimulating  normal  function  in  the  first  zone. 

Were  we  to  press  our  cheek  over  the  wisdom 
tooth  —  which  is  in  the  fourth  zone  —  or  rub  the 
ice  on  our  third  zone  ear,  the  sneeze  and  the  nose 
bleed  would  pursue  uninterruptedly  the  even 
tenor  of  their  ways. 

If  you  never  had  heard  of  these  things,  you 
would  probably  say  "pish,"  and  look  around  with 
some  trepidation  for  your  informant's  keeper. 
Yet,  in  all  earnestness  and  sincerity,  I  would,  if 
you  are  one  of  those  whose  stomach  is  easily 
upset,  urge  that  the  next  time  you  board  a  train 
or  boat  you  arm  yourself  with  a  wire  hair  brush 
and  a  metal  comb. 

(101) 


102  ZONE    THERAPY. 

When  the  first  faint  qualms,  premonitory  of 
an  eruption  or  some  other  seismic  disturbance  in 
your  interior  are  felt,  get  busy  with  the  comb 
and  brush  —  not  on  your  head  —  but  on  your 
hands. 

For  sickness  of  the  stomach  is  quite  generally 
relieved  by  steady  pressure  made  over  the  first 
and  second  zone  on  the  backs  of  the  hands  with 
the  teeth  of  a  metal  comb.  The  comb  should  be 
pressed  firmly  over  the  areas  running  from  the 
thumb  and  first  finger  of  both  hands,  including 
the  web  between  the  thumb  and  first  finger  - 
which  seems  to  have  a  very  intimate  connection 
with  the  stomach.  If  there  is  no  comb  handy, 
the  finger  nails  will  do  good  substitute  work,  but 
the  metal  is  best,  as  it  seems  to  stimulate  an 
electrical  contact  that  helps  the  "impulse." 

This  procedure  is  to  be  used  only  where  the 
stomach  is  irritated  and  threatens  convulsive 
contractures,  or  where  there  is  pain,  or  distention 
from  gas.  Relief  of  these  conditions  may  gen- 
erally be  expected  in  from  five  to  ten  minutes. 

If,  however,  the  stomach  is  "dead"  -  the  doc- 
tors call  it  "atonic"  —  when  it  lies  inert  and  un- 
ambitious after  a  heavy  meal  —  or  even  a  small 
meal  that  is  heavy  for  that  stomach  at  that  par- 
ticular time  —  the  best  results  are  found  in 
gentle  stroking  or  scratching  with  a  wire  hair 


SCRATCHING  HAND  FOR  SICK  STOMACH.    103 


FIG.  IS.  —  When  I  first  saw  this  patient  (January  9,  1913),  the  en- 
largement in  the  neck,  pronounced  cancer,  and  inoperable,  by  some  of 
our  best  men  in  New  England,  was  stony  hard  and  exceedingly  painful 
to  the  touch.  She  had  not  been  able  to  lie  down  for  nine  months,  and 
had  not  taken  any  solid  food  for  three  months;  could  open  the  mouth 
only  slightly,  and  with  great  difficulty.  We  induced  speedy  relaxation  of 
the  neck  (it  was  absolutely  relaxed  in  four  treatments)  through  pressure 
with  a  dry  cotton-wound  applicator  and  also  with  a  pencil  moistened  with 
trichloracetic  acid  in  varied  strengths  from  twenty-five  per  cent  to  a  sat- 
urated solution,  throughout  the  appropriate  zones  in  the  mouth,  nose  and 
epipharynx.  This  patient  responds  quickly  to  pressure,  and  accurately 
traces  sensations  of  glow  or  numbness  from  the  mouth  to  the  extremities 
and  vice  versa.  These  sensations  are  almost  immediately  followed  by 
lines  of  anesthesia.  Note  the  neck  of  this  patient  (see  Fig.  19)  four 
years  later.  Patient  through  pressure  on  fingers  of  zones  involved  keeps 
side  of  neck  constantly  anesthetized,  and  therefore  free  from  irritation, 
with  constant  absorption  of  growth. 


104 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


I  made  this  picture  of  Mrs. Waters 
,  May.3,1917. 


FIG.  19. 


SCRATCHING  HAND  FOR  SICK  STOMACH.    105 

brush,  or  with  the  teeth  of  the  comb.  If  these 
are  not  available  scratch  with  the  finger  nails, 
but,  as  with  the  pressures,  the  most  favorable 
results  follow  the  use  of  metal. 

Remember  that  scratching  stimulates,  while 
deep  pressure  with  the  teeth  of  the  comb,  finger 
nails  or  wires  of  the  hair  brush  relaxes. 

Also  the  next  time  the  baby  is  restless  and  in- 
clined to  double  up  and  yell  murder,  instead  of 
doing  a  slippered  constitutional  up  and  down  the 
room  with  him,  scratch  the  front  of  his  hands. 
If  he's  had  too  much  to  eat  this  may  quiet  him. 
If,  however,  his  little  "tummy"  is  "working," 
try  some  pressures  on  his  hands  or  feet,  and  see 
how  soon  the  "tummy"  will  knock  off  work. 

And,  for  the  same  sufficient  reasons,  try  the 
same  thing  on  yourself  and  the  family,  instead 
of  "banging"  the  stomach  over  the  head  with  a 
dose  of  dope. 

The  morning  sickness  of  pregnancy  yields 
quite  uniformly  to  deep  pressures  on  the  top  or 
front  of  the  hands,  and  it  is  much  safer  to  try  and 
control  this  nausea  from  the  hands  than  it  would 
be  to  resort  to  the  severe  pressures  on  the 
tongue.  For  these  latter,  if  too  drastic,  might 
produce  a  miscarriage. 

Zone  therapy  pressures  are  valuable  not  only 
in  nausea  and  vomiting,  but  also  in  indigestion, 


106  ZONE    THERAPY. 

gastric  catarrh  and  all  forms  of  stomach  dis- 
orders. It  has  even  been  successfully  employed 
in  gastric  ulcer,  with  dangerous  hemorrhages 
and  the  other  distressing  symptoms  of  this  pain- 
ful malady.  Dr.  Reid  Kellogg  has  cured  three 
of  these  cases,  one  in  ten  treatments,  the  others 
in  three  months.  Two  of  these  patients  had 
had  an  acute  condition  for  two  months  — no 
food  whatosever  passing  through  the  pylorus 
(the  exit  of  the  stomach).  They  had  been,  of 
course,  fed  by  the  rectum. 

Dr.  Kellogg  used  the  probe  (Fig.  8),  low  down 
on  the  posterior  (back)  wall  of  the  pharynx,  and 
used  pressures  over  the  thumb,  first  and  second 
fingers  of  both  hands  with  the  aluminum  comb. 

In  less  than  a  dozen  treatments  these  patients 
were  able  to  retain  food  taken  into  the  stomach, 
and  practically  conduct  the  entire  subsequent 
course  of  their  own  cure. 

To  disabuse  the  minds  of  any  who  may  evolve 
the  idea  that  zone  therapy  is  of  value  only  in  con- 
ditions that  "don't  matter  anyhow,"  I  want  to 
emphasize  that  these  cases  were  most  grave,  and 
that  they  had  received  skilled  medical  attention 
for  many  weeks  —  without  apparent  benefit. 

It  has  been  current  knowledge  —  even  before 
those  halcyon  days  when  the  banqueter  retired  to 
have  his  throat  tickled  by  a  dutiful  slave  —  that 


SCRATCHING  HAND  FOR  SICK  STOMACH.     107 

by  touching  definite  areas  in  the  throat  and  at 
the  base  of  the  tongue  —  vomiting  could  be  in- 
duced. 

And  now  we  have  discovered  how  to  put  the 
reverse  English  on  the  tickle,  and  keep  it  down 
when  it  wants  to  come  up.  Which  discovery 
should  also  help  increase  the  sum  total  of  the 
world's  health  and  happiness. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

HAY    FEVER,    ASTHMA    AND    TONSILITIS. 

IF  the  United  States  Hay  Fever  Association, 
and  all  individuals  who  suffer  from  hay 
fever,  will  read  carefully,  and  then  apply 
this  chapter — as  directed — the  ravages  of  these 
catarrhal  cataclysms,  I  feel  sure,  will  be  beauti- 
fully lessened. 

For  zone  therapy  has  an  especial  and  peculiar 
message  for  hay-feverites.  It  has  mitigated,  if 
not  entirely  relieved,  the  red-eyed  misery  of  hun- 
dreds of  them.  And  none  —  except  those  who 
have  been  victims  —  can  know  what  a  real  relief 
this  is. 

Nobody  knows  for  certain  what  causes  hay- 
fever,  and,  judging  from  the  textbooks,  they 
know  even  less  regarding  any  definite  method  of 
relieving  it. 

It  is  possible  that  repeated  "colds"  —  generally 
from  dust  infection  —  result  in  a  chronic  irrita- 
tion of  the  mucous  membrane,  followed  by  a 
thickening  (or  hypertrophy)  of  the  tissues. 

This  thickened  tissue  dams  the  circulation  of 
blood  in  the  membranes,  and  presses  upon  the 

('<*) 


HAY   FEVER,  ASTHMA  AND  TONSILLITIS.     109 

delicate  nerves  of  the  nose,  thereby  irritating 
them,  which  irritation  proves  to  be  the  last  straw. 

An  acute  inflammatory  irritation  is  estab- 
lished, setting  up  a  vicious  circle.  For  the  pres- 
sure causes  nerve  irritation,  and  the  nerves  re- 
taliate by  still  further  disturbing  the  circulation, 
thereby  causing  more  pressure. 

Then,  if  really  it  is  pollen  that  causes  the 
physiological  conflagration  we  call  hay  fever,  the 
mucous  membrane  is  so  susceptible  that  it  will 
readily  respond  to  the  action  of  the  pollen. 
Which  is  probably  also  true  of  those  cases  that 
develop  similar  conditions  from  the  odor  of  roses, 
horses  or  cats. 

It  is  significant,  however,  that  of  all  the  hun- 
dreds of  hay-fever  patients  that  have  come 
under  my  care  not  one  had  an  absolutely  normal 
nose.  Invariably  there  were  bony  spurs,  pro- 
trudmg  turbinate  bodies,  cartilages  twisted  out 
of  proper  alignment,  an  inflamed  and  thickened 
mucos  membrane  lining,  or  some  other  patholog- 
ical condition,  one  usually  requiring  surgical 
interference. 

So  if  you  have,  or  expect  to  have,  hay  fever 
or  any  other  abnormal  condition  of  the  nasal 
mucous  membranes,  see  a  specialist  and  have 
your  nose  placed  in  as  near  a  perfect  condition 
as  surgical  skill  and  your  physical  shortcomings 


110  ZONE    THERAPY. 

will  permit,  not  forgetting  also  a  thorough 
stretching  of  the  soft  palate.  This  the  surgeon 
will  accomplish  by  means  of  a  finger  inserted  in 
the  throat  and  a  hooked  instrument  in  the  pas- 
sage back  of  the  nose.  By  enlarging  the  con- 
tracted parts  of  this  passage  normal  drainage 
and  circulation  in  these  tissues  is  established. 

The  best  results  are  obtained  by  operating 
during  the  height  of  an  attack.  If  sometimes 
even  a  needle  be  thrust  through  the  congested 
mucous  membrane,  so  that  the  blood  flows  freely, 
the  attack  can  be  broken  up,  and  the  condition 
frequently  eradicated  for  that  season.* 

Then  use  any  combination  of  the  following 
procedures,  which  experience  may  prove  helpful, 
remembering  that  here  no  fixed  rule  can  be  laid 
down,  and  that  what  "works"  magically  in  one 
case  might  have  but  little  effect  in  another. 

First,  make  steady  firm  pressures  on  various 
points  in  the  roof  of  the  mouth  with  the  thumb. 
Be  careful  to  "cover"  the  region  directly  on  a 
line  with  the  nose.  These  pressures  should  be 
maintained  for  from  four  to  eight  minutes  at  a 
time,  and  repeated  a  half  dozen  or  more  times 
daily.  Those  experienced  in  zone  therapy  claim 

*  W.    H.    FitzGerald  —  Journal    of    the    American    Medical 
Association,  1905. 


HAY   FEVER,  ASTHMA  AND  TONSILLITIS.     Ill 

that  the  pressures  have  an  immediate  and  power- 
ful effect  upon  abnormal  conditions  in  this  zone. 

At  the  same  time  the  upper  lip  should  be  firmly 
forced  against  the  teeth  with  the  first  finger. 
This  usually  has  a  most  discouraging  effect  upon 
sneezing. 

Pressures  with  a  cotton-tipped  probe  on  the 
back  wall  of  the  pharynx  (the  inside  junction  of 
the  nose  and  mouth),  as  well  as  upon  the  mucous 
membranes  of  the  nose,  give,  in  the  hands  of 
physicians,  the  quickest  results.  The  cotton- 
tipped  probe  may  be  dipped  in  trichloracetic  acid, 
or  some  pungent  agent,  which  will  lend  "punch" 
to  the  contact  impulse. 

A  curious  feature  in  connection  with  this  probe 
therapy  is  that  if  the  patient,  by  coughing,  re- 
sents the  presence  of  the  instruments,  the  effect 
seems  to  be  dissipated.  In  other  words,  the 
transmission  of  the  nerve  impulse  is  partly  in- 
hibited. It  is  fair  to  say,  however,  that  patients 
become  rapidly  accustomed  to  what  at  first  fre- 
quently caused  irritation. 

The  use  of  a  tongue  depressor,  covering  the 
center  of  the  tongue  fairly  well  "forward,"  has 
also  been  found  most  helpful,  if  pressed  down 
and  held  firmly  several  times  a  day  for  three 
minutes  or  more  at  a  time.  In  fact,  it  is  ex- 
pedient to  use  the  tongue  depressor  in  almost  all 


112  ZONE    THERAPY. 

nose,  throat  and  stomach  troubles  —  or,  in  fact, 
any  condition  occurring  in  the  "front"  of  the 
body. 

The  wearing  of  moderately  tight  rubber  bands 
upon  the  thumb,  first  and  second  fingers  for  ten 
or  fifteen  minutes  (or  less,  if  the  finger  tips  be- 
come purple)  repeated  several  times  daily,  seems 
also  to  help  materially.  Indeed,  some  physicians 
report  that  they  get  their  very  best  results  by 
having  their  patients  wear  the  bands  as  con- 
tinuously as  possible,  removing  them  only  as 
required  to  prevent  blood  stasis,  and  then  replac- 
ing them  again  or  the  Therapy  Zones  (see  page 
198)  give  even  better  results. 

Pressures  exerted  with  the  finger  and  thumb 
over  the  joints  of  the  thumb,  first  and  second 
fingers  or  toes  have  given  excellent  results. 
Three  or  four-minute  pressures  with  an  alumi- 
num comb  on  all  surfaces  of  the  thumb  and  first 
finger  —  repeated  several  times  daily  —  have 
also  given  satisfactory  relief  in  hay  fever. 

Always  the  breath  should  be  taken  through  the 
nostrils.  If  the  mouth  persists  in  opening  at 
night,  strap  it  shut  with  isinglass  plaster  cut  in 
thin  strips. 

The  treatment  of  asthma  and  other  affections 
of  the  respiratory  passages  is  very  similar  to 
that  of  hay  fever,  excepting  that,  instead  of 


HAY   FEVER,  ASTHMA  AND  TONSILLITIS.     113 

pressing  the  tongue,  more  generally  the  floor  of 
the  mouth  is  manipulated  for  this  purpose  —  as 
the  impulse  is  thus  more  "direct." 

Some  of  the  results  in  asthma  have  been  little 
short  of  miraculous.  One  patient  suffering  with 
bronchial  asthma  had  been  unable  to  lie  down 
for  three  years,  what  little  sleep  she  secured  be- 
ing taken  propped  in  a  chair.  Her  sole  relief 
consisted  in  the  hypodermic  injection  of  fifteen 
drops  of  adrenalin  solution,  practically  every 
morning  and  night. 

I  made  pressure  on  the  pharyngeal  wall,  at  a 
point  "low  down,"  where  the  "metallic  sensation" 
was  reflected  into  the  bronchial  region.  Also  I 
used  the  probe  on  the  floor  of  the  mouth,  directly 
beneath  the  root  of  the  tongue. 

Within  five  minutes  this  lady  —  for  the  first 
time  in  three  years  —  was  relieved  of  all  pain, 
tightness,  hoarseness,  and  shortness  of  breath. 
In  two  months  of  this  treatment  she  gained 
fifteen  pounds,  and  now  sleeps  through  the  night. 
Also,  she  has  been  enabled  completely  to  discon- 
tinue her  use  of  adrenalin. 

Another  bronchial  asthmatic  suffered  so 
severely  that  he  had  made  all  arrangements,  even 
to  packing  his  trunks,  to  retire  from  business  and 
see1:  health  on  the  Riviera  or  in  Egypt.  His 
"wheezing"  was  so  pronounced  that  he  could  be 


114  ZONE    THERAPY. 

heard  clear  across  a  twenty-foot  room.  This 
gentleman  was  advised  by  Dr.  D.  F.  Sullivan, 
senior  surgeon  of  St.  Francis  Hospital,  to  see 
me  before  leaving  the  country. 

I  pressed  on  the  floor  of  the  patient's  mouth, 
under  the  root  of  the  tongue,  with  a  cotton-tipped 
probe,  and  made  strong  pressure  on  the  first  and 
third  zones  of  his  tongue  with  a  tongue  depressor. 
After  a  few  treatments  this  man  was  entirely 
well,  and  informed  us  that  he  had  indefinitely 
postponed  his  trip  abroad,  and  "was  going  back 
to  work  again." 

Zone  therapists  have  found  in  throat  and 
chest  cases  that  painting  the  tongue  with  iodine 
on  the  upper  and  lower  surfaces  for  about  one- 
third  way  back  is  most  helpful. 

But  one  of  the  best  of  all  methods  by  which 
the  patient  may  help  himself  consists  in  biting 
the  tongue  as  hard  as  comfortably  can  be  borne, 
holding  that  member  between  the  teeth  for  sev- 
eral minutes  at  a  time,  three  or  four  times  daily. 

Also,  it  is  well  carefully  to  examine  the  con- 
dition of  the  teeth,  nose,  throat  and  pharynx  in 
asthmatic  cases,  as  frequently  the  asthma  does 
not  clear  up  until  some  defect  in  these  organs  is 
remedied. 

A  twelve-year-old  girl  of  my  acquaintance,  a 
physician's  daughter,  has  developed  considerable 


HAY   FEVER,  ASTHMA  AND  TONSILLITIS.     115 

technic  in  zone  therapy.  Only  recently  she  re- 
lieved the  pain  of  a  bad  case  of  mumps  by  fasten- 
ing spring  clothespins  to  the  first,  second  and 
third  fingers  of  both  her  hands,  leaving  them  on 
until  the  finger  tips  became  quite  purple. 

The  little  lady  proudly  demonstrated  her  con- 
trol over  the  condition  by  taking  a  mouthful  of 
vinegar  as  a  gargle.  This,  as  every  doctor 
knows,  is  quite  a  crucial  test. 

In  tonsilitis  good  results  almost  invariably  fol- 
low pressure  over  the  inferior  dental  nerve,  at  a 
point  where  it  enters  the  jaw  bone.  It  requires 
considerable  skill  to  find  this  foramen  (as  it  is 
called),  so  this  advice  is  really  for  doctors  only. 

Pressure  may  also  be  made  with  the  finger  or 
an  applicator  back  of  the  anterior  pillars  (mem- 
branes situated  in  front  of  the  tonsil). 

Yet  much  may  be  accomplished  merely  by 
squeezing  the  second,  third  and  fourth  fingers, 
and  using  a  tongue  depressor  on  the  extreme 
sides  of  the  tongue. 

And  this  reminds  me  that  a  certain  minister  of 
my  acquaintance  has  been  teaching  his  Boy 
Scouts  zone  therapy  methods,  with  especial  ref- 
erence to  curing  themselves  of  coughs  and  other 
common  ailments.  The  boys  also  find  it  valuable 
in  their  "First  Aid  to  the  Injured"  work.  I  can 
readily  understand  that  the  analgesic  effects  of 


116  ZONE    THERAPY. 

zone  pressure  should  be  effective  in  the  camp,  as 
well  as  in  the  home,  or  in  the  dead-of-night 
emergency. 

Zone  therapy  opens  up  a  tremendous  field.  So 
the  more  experimenters  we  have  the  sooner 
every  one  will  know  just  how  tremendous  an;l 
useful  and  marvelous  it  is. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

CURING   A  SICK  VOICE. 

WE  all  remember  the  gentleman  in  one 
of  Moliere's  plays  who  was  as- 
tounded to  learn  that  he  had  been 
talking  prose  all  his  life.  This  verdant  reminis- 
cence has  an  almost  universal  application. 

For  instance,  Umberto  Sorrentino,  the  gifted 
Italian  tenor,  has,  for  a  number  of  years,  re- 
lieved the  "tight,"  inflexible  throat,  which  is 
the  bane  of  vocalists  and  speakers,  by  grasping 
his  tongue  firmly  in  a  handkerchief,  pulling  it  as 
hard  as  could  be  comfortably  borne,  and  wrig- 
gling it  slowly  from  side  to  side.  This,  he  says, 
eases  up  throat  tension,  and  frees  the  voice.  It 
also  has  a  tendency  to  abort  a  beginning  cold. 

He  was  led  to  adopt  this  practice  from  ob- 
serving the  beneficial  effects  of  massage  of  the 
throat  in  stimulating  and  otherwise  improving 
the  circulation  and  releasing  the  muscles  from 
the  bound  condition,  which  invariably  (in  his 
case)  foreruns  a  cold.  He  reasoned  that  if  ex- 
ternal massage  was  beneficial,  internal  massage 
should  be  even  more  so;  hence,  the  "wriggle." 

(117) 


118  ZONE    THERAPY. 

Also,  Miss  Mabel  Garrison,  one  of  the  new 
lyric  sopranos  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House, 
has  won  the  appreciation  and  gratitude  of  vari- 
ous members  of  the  company,  by  curing  stiff,  in- 
elastic sore  throats  through  pressures  made  upon 
the  vocalists'  tongues. 

There  is  a  hint  in  these  significant  facts  that 
no  singer,  lawyer,  actor,  clergyman,  mother  of 
a  family,  or  business  man  can  afford  to  ignore. 
For  almost  everyone  suffers  occasionally  from 
defects  somewhere  in  the  delicate  mechanism 
that  shapes  air  currents  into  beautiful  sounds, 
and  molds  breath  into  speech. 

Although  they  probably  are  not  aware  of  this, 
both  Signer  Sorrentino  and  Miss  Garrison  are 
employing  zone  therapy  in  relieving  these  vocal 
ills.  For  they  are  exerting  pressures  on  the 
first  and  second  zones,  the  region  which  governs 
the  function  of  the  vocal  chords,  the  pharynx, 
larynx,  and  the  respiratory  passages. 

And  while  their  results  have  been  very  re- 
markable, and  eminently  satisfactory  to  them- 
selves and  their  fellow  artists,  they  would  be 
even  more  striking  were  the  pressures  made 
more  "direct." 

In  other  words,  if,  instead  of  squeezing  and 
making  strong  traction  on  the  tongue,  or  of 
using  a  depressor  on  this  member,  they  were  to 


CURING  A  SICK  VOICE. 


119 


SIGNOR  UMBERTO  SORRENTINO, 

the  noted  tenor,  who  relieves  "tight"  throat  by  making  strong  traction 
on  the  tongue.  At  Dr.  FitzGerald's  suggestion  pressure  on  the  anterior 
third  of  the  tongue  and  by  pressure  on  appropriate  areas  of  thumbs  and 
forefingers  Sorrentino  has  relieved  himself  and  many  of  his  friends  of 
what  promised  to  be  serious  throat  conditions. 

FIG.  20. 


120  ZONE    THERAPY. 

do  these  things  and,  in  addition,  apply  firm  pres- 
sure on  the  front  and  sides  of  the  floor  of  the 
mouth,  beneath  the  tongue,  with  the  finger  or 
better  still  with  a  cotton-tipped  metal  probe 
dipped  in  spirits  of  camphor  or  alcohol  (to  in- 
crease the  "impulse"),  their  results  \vould  be 
far  more  certain  and  satisfactory. 

In  all  cases  of  hoarseness,  huskiness,  or  in  loss 
of  voice  due  to  irritation  or  strain  —  as  in 
clergyman's  sore  throat  —  these  practices  almost 
invariably  give  relief.  I  remember  a  case  of  a 
soprano  whose  upper  register  was  completely 
lost  through  long-continued  strain.  The  floor 
of  her  mouth  —  directly  under  the  tongue,  and 
up  to  the  roots  of  the  lower  incisor  teeth,  was 
"prodded"  intermittently  for  a  period  of  fifteen 
minutes,  with  the  metal  probe.  The  cotton  on 
the  tip  of  the  probe  was  dipped  in  some  pungent 
agent,  for  the  purpose,  as  before  stated,  of  in- 
creasing the  nerve  "response." 

Marked  improvement  followed  the  first  treat- 
ment. She  was,  however,  cautioned  not  to  at- 
tempt to  use  the  voice,  except  for  a  moment  or 
two  after  treatments  —  to  observe  the  effect. 

The  singer  also  carried  out  "home  treat- 
ments," consisting  in  five-minute  firm  applica- 
tions of  a  tongue  depressor  on  the  center  of  the 
tongue.  This  was  done  every  four  hours.  In 


CURING  A  SICK  VOICE.  121 

addition,  she  pressed  the  sides  of  her  thumbs. 
This  action,  especially  if  accompanied  by  digging 
the  finger  nails  into  the  inner  side  of  the  thumb 

-  which  area  is  distinctly  in  the  vocal  chord  zone 

-  has  a  specific  effect  upon  the  vocal  chords. 
Within  three  days  this  lady  had  completely  re- 
covered, and  was  able  to  return  to  her  company. 

Zone  therapy  has,  in  innumerable  instances, 
restored  speaking  voices  that  were  as  lost  as  the 
Lost  Hope.  Indeed,  it  is  of  common  occurrence 
to  have  a  clergyman,  a  lawyer,  or  a  business 
man  who  has  become  aphonic  (voiceless)  from 
long  dictation,  or  some  other  vocal  strain,  come 
to  the  specialist  in  zone  therapy,  unable  to  speak 
above  a  whisper,  and  within  a  half  hour  go  his 
way  rejoicing  —  practically  as  "good  as  new". 

This,  by  application  of  the  probe  on  the  floor 
of  the  mouth,  pressures  on  the  tongue,  and  some- 
times pressures  on  the  thumb  and  fingers,  any 
and  all  of  which  procedures  can  be  successfully 
used  by  any  intelligent  man  or  woman  in  the  re- 
lief of  their  own  troubles,  or  in  curing  these 
troubles  in  their  family. 

Respecting  the  finger  pressures,  it  must  be 
borne  in  mind  that  it  is  necessary  to  work  on 
the  particular  zone  involved.  For  instance,  it 
would  be  useless  to  make  pressures  over  the 
thumb  joints  if  the  cause  of  the  throat  trouble 


122 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FIG.  21.  —  Patient  pointing  to  spot  where  he  is  experiencing  irritatijn 
from  pressure  of  applicator  between  second  and  third  zones  in  epi-pharynx. 

Ask  your  patient  with  sore  throat  to  swallow  and  point  to  spot  that 
hurts.  If  the  entire  side  of  right  neck  for  instance  is  sore,  your  treatment 
must  attack  all  five  zones  on  that  side  in  epi-pharynx,  floor  of  mouth, 
hands,  feet,  etc. 

If  there  is  but  one  painful  spot  it  should  be  attacked  through  appro- 
priate zone. 


CURING  A  SICK  VOICE.  123 

should  happen  to  be  a  congested  tonsil.  The 
third,  fourth  and  fifth  fingers  would  have  to  be 
invoked  for  relief  in  this  zone. 

It  is,  however,  perfectly  remarkable  what 
these  finger  pressures  alone  will  accomplish. 
One  of  the  earlier  experimental  cases  was  a 
patient  who  had  been  speaking  on  and  off  all 
day  at  a  Sunday  School  Convention  held  in  a 
grove.  This  grove  must  have  been  an  ideal  spot 
for  a  nice  open  air  meeting.  But  the  leafy 
bowers,  the  sylvan  glades,  and  the  bossy  dells 
were  not  built  for  acoustic  purposes. 

The  consequence  was  that,  when  the  shades 
of  night  were  falling  fast  our  hero  was  "all  in". 
He  couldn't  speak  above  a  whisper.  He  had 
such  contraction  of  the  muscles  that  he  couldn't 
even  open  his  jaws  —  let  alone  communicate  in- 
telligent information  through  them. 

This  was  his  condition  when  he  presented 
himself  the  following  noon  petitioning  relief. 
He  had  had  nothing  to  eat  since  late  lunch  the 
day  before,  although,  whether  he  knew  it  or  not, 
he  had  had  enough  then  to  last  him  a  week. 

Of  course,  as  he  could  not  open  his  mouth 
it  was  not  possible  to  treat  him  by  pressures  on 
the  floor  of  the  mouth,  and  on  the  tongue.  So 
he  was  provided  with  an  aluminum  comb,  and 
shown  how  to  make  pressures  on  the  front  of  his 


124  ZONE    THERAPY. 

hand,  extending  up  from  the  thumb  to  the 
wrist,  and  over  to  the  fourth  finger,  and  left  to 
his  own  devices  for  twenty-five  minutes. 

At  the  expiration  of  this  time  he  had  relaxed 
the  tension  of  his  jaw  muscles  and  relieved  the 
irritation  in  his  throat  to  such  an  extent  that  he 
went  out  and  had  a  comfortable  lunch.  Return- 
ing to  the  specialist's  orfice,  pressures  were  made 
with  a  padded  probe  on  the  wall  of  the  pharynx 
-  the  probe  being  introduced  through  the  nostril. 

Also,  he  was  given  instrumentation  on  the 
floor  of  the  mouth,  underneath  the  tongue,  and 
a  conscientious  treatment  with  a  tongue  de- 
pressor. This  weapon  he  took  home  and  used, 
carrying  out  also  the  combing  of  the  back  of 
the  hands.  Three  days  afterwards  he  sang  in 
the  choir  as  well  as  ever. 

Deep  pressure  with  the  fingers  on  the  muscles 
of  the  throat,  and  a  "plucking"  of  the  voice  box 
are  also  helpful  procedures.  Where  the  irrita- 
tion or  the  inflammation  is  not  extensive  it 
might  be  well  to  include  them  as  routine  meas- 
ures in  most  throat  troubles.  Where  there  is 
active  congestion  they  are,  of  course,  not  only 
useless,  but  actually  harmful. 

A  very  frequent  cause  of  vocal  ills,  and  a 
condition  most  generally  associated  with  a  con- 
gested throat,  is  a  "stuffy"  nose.  Also,  it  is 


CURING  A  SICK  VOICE.  125 

quite  impossible  to  get  a  perfect  vocal  resonance 
if  the  membranes  of  the  nose  are  swollen  and 
congested  with  "cold"  or  catarrh. 

The  tongue  and  finger  pressures  do  much  to 
relieve  these  conditions,  but  perhaps  the  surest 
and  quickest  method  of  curing  them  when  opera- 
tion is  not  indicated  is  to  "pencil"  the  nose  with 
a  probe,  using  the  uncovered  steel  for  this  pur- 
pose. And,  I  may  here  remark,  that  the  patient's 
own  saliva  is  one  of  the  best  and  least  irritating 
lubricants  for  this  probe  work  in  the  nose. 

The  probe  should  be  left  in  each  nostril  several 
minutes,  and  gently  moved  back  and  forth  from 
time  to  time,  a  moderate  pressure  being  exerted 
at  the  same  time,  for  the  tonic  "penciling"  or 
"ironing"  effect.  The  curative  influence  of  this 
on  chronic  nasal  catarrh  or  other  pathological 
conditions  of  the  nose  is  sometimes  quite  remark- 
able. 

Also,  it  might  be  well  here  to  add  that 
atomizers  are  useless,  except  temporarily : —  as 
after  exposure  to  a  horde  of  sneezers  or  cough- 
ers.  In  this  event,  an  alkaline  antiseptic  may  be 
of  value. 

But  the  constant  washing  away  of  the  natural 
secretion  of  the  mucous  membrane,  or  the  per- 
petual coating  over  of  the  air  passages  with  a 
film  of  oil  —  which  prevents  the  natural  secre- 


126  ZONE    THERAPY. 

tion  from  being  natural  —  is  distinctly  injurious. 
For  it  tends  to  provoke,  perpetrate  and  per- 
petuate all  forms  of  catarrh,  and  none  should 
use  them  —  except  under  physician's  instruc- 
tion —  and  then  for  a  short  time  only.  Stimu- 
late normal  function  with  a  probe  or  sound,  used 
at  night  before  retiring,  and  in  the  morning  on 
arising,  and  cure  the  condition  instead  of  making 
it  chronic. 

It  wouldn't  be  difficult  to  get  affirmative  evi- 
dence to  the  fact  that  a  sick  voice  is  one  of  the 
sickest  and  most  disheartening  things  that  can 
befall  one  who  must  depend  upon  it  for  a  living. 
But,  with  a  little  patience,  and  an  intelligent  ap- 
plication of  the  principles  of  zone  therapy,  it  is 
a  "cinch". 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

A   SPECIFIC    FOR    WHOOPING   AND   OTHER    COUGHS. 

FOR   years    eminent    scientists    have    been 
spending  much  valuable  time  and  money 
in  seeking  a  cure  for  whooping  cough. 
Still  the  whoop  persists.    The  distress,  the  after 
effects  on  the  bronchial  tubes,  and  the  weaken- 
ing influence  —  frequently  leading  to  the  later 
development    of    tuberculosis  —  remains    unin- 
fluenced.   The  disease  runs  its  course,  irrespec- 
tive of  any  or  all  treatments. 

Yet  whooping  cough  is  one  of  the  simplest 
and  most  easily-cured  diseases  with  which  zone 
therapy  has  to  contend.  An  ordinary  case  of 
whooping  cough,  which  has  persisted  for  weeks, 
can  sometimes  be  cured  in  from  three  to  five 
minutes.  Rarely  are  more  than  four  or  five 
treatments  necessary.  Case  after  case  is  re- 
called in  which,  after  the  application  of  a  cotton- 
tipped  probe  —  held  down  firmly  on  the  back  of 
the  throat  (the  post-pharyngeal  wall),  little 
patients  who  had  whooped  themselves  into  a  state 
of  nervous  and  physical  exhaustion,  never  had 
another  paroxysm  of  coughing. 

(127) 


128  ZONE    THERAPY. 

If  the  savants  of  the  various  research  institu- 
tions throughout  the  country  are  really  sincere 
in  attempting  to  discover  a  cure  for  whooping 
cough,  asthma,  goitre,  and  a  score  of  other  con- 
ditions —  conditions  successfully  treated  by  zone 
therapy  —  it  will  be  easy  to  put  this  method  to 
the  test. 

The  most  remarkable  feature  of  a  brand-new 
discovery  is  very  frequently  its  hoary-headed- 
ness.  For  this  reason,  when  we  come  to  think 
about  this  matter  of  the  mechanical  relief  of 
cough,  we  are  struck  with  its  antiquity.  From 
time  antedating  the  memory  of  man,  humanity 
has  pressed  its  second  finger  in  its  pharynx 
(that  space  which  spreads  out  from  the  back 
part  of  the  mouth  and  throat  up  into  the  noseV 
or  the  larynx  (a  continuation  of  the  pharynx), 
for  the  purpose  of  loosening  a  dry  cough  or  to 
facilitate  expectoration. 

All  grandmothers,  ever  since  there  were 
grandmothers,  have  put  their  fingers  in  babies' 
throats  to  give  them  relief  in  croup.  Some  of 
the  wisest  of  these  grandmothers  used  to  press 
the  handle  of  a  spoon  on  the  back  part  of  the 
tongue,  in  order  to  abort  a  beginning  cold,  or 
cause  a  profuse  secretion  of  mucous  in  condi- 
tions associated  with  a  dry,  metallic  cough. 

Our  old-time  cure  for  hiccoughs  has  the  same 


A  SPECIFIC   FOR  COUGHS.  129 

reason  for  its  existence.  For,  when  we  grasp 
the  tongue  of  a  hiccougher,  and  with  a  long  pull, 
a  strong  pull,  and  a  pull  all  together,  haul  the 
offending  member  to  tongue's  length  —  and  hold 
it  there  —  we  cure  the  spasmodic  contraction  of 
the  diaphragm  (the  cause  of  hiccough)  by  in- 
fluencing the  zone  in  which  the  trouble  origi- 
nates. This  is  the  principle  by  which  we  cure 
whooping  cough,  or  indeed  any  cough  that  origi- 
nates in  any  portion  of  the  respiratory  tract 
But,  we  have  found  in  these  cases  that  spots  in 
the  vault  of  the  pharnyx,  if  pressed  firmly  with 
a  cotton-wrapped  probe,  as  large  as  can  be  com- 
fortably passed  through  the  nostrils,  gives  the 
quickest  and  most  definite  results. 

For  the  "reflex"  -  the  sensation  of  pain, 
tingling,  or  cold,  which  is  transmitted  along  the 
nerve  zones  by  this  contact,  —  can  be  definitely 
traced  by  the  patient  to  the  exact  spot  where  the 
irritation  seems  to  originate. 

By  slightly  raising  the  handle  of  the  probe, 
and  thereby  altering  its  point  of  contact  on  the 
business  end,  this  influence  can  be  directed  with 
almost  mathematical  precision  to  the  area  we 
desire  to  influence. 

When  the  exact  "spot"  is  pressed — and  a  little 
practice  will  soon  make  the  finding  of  this  almost 
automatic — the  pressure  should  be  firmly  held 
9 


130  ZONE    THERAPY. 

for  several  minutes.  The  throat  may  feel  slightly 
"lame"  afterwards  —  but  this  soon  passes  off. 
If  it  does  not,  pressure  brought  to  bear  upon  the 
appropriate  thumb  or  finger  will  relieve  the 
"lameness." 

In  an  experience  with  several  hundred  cases 
of  whooping  cough  we  have  not  yet  seen  a 
failure  from  the  proper  application  of  zone 
therapy.  This,  I  believe,  is  more  than  can  be 
truly  said  of  any  other  form  of  treatment. 

A  very  few  treatments  only  are  necessary  to 
relieve  even  the  most  aggravated  case  of  whoop- 
ing cough — or  any  cough  which  originates  in 
the  respiratory  passage  in  that  zone. 

In  other  words,  a  tubercular  cough,  which  has 
its  cause  in  a  lesion  on  the  extreme  right  or  left 
of  the  lung  would  not  respond  to  pressures  in 
the  middle  zones.  Likewise  a  cough  which  was 
reflected  from  a  congested  liver,  or  from  some 
other  organ  not  in  the  first  and  second  zones, 
would  fail  to  respond  to  pressures  made  as  here 
described.  Any  intelligent  man  or  woman  can 
apply  these  pressures  —  and  with  almost  the 
same  success  as  would  attend  the  effort  of  the 
most  famous  specialist. 

It  sometimes  assists  very  materially  if  the 
tongue,  for  about  a  third  way  back,  is  thoroly 
painted  above  and  below  with  tincture  of  iodin. 


A  SPECIFIC  FOR  COUGHS.  131 

The  mild  irritation  from  the  iodin  tends  to 
stimulate  the  normal  function  of  all  those  zones 
interested  in  keeping  up  the  cough. 

If  the  use  of  the  probe  through  the  nostrils 
seems  too  much  like  a  surgical  operation,  very 
good — though  not  so  rapid  and  effective  results 
—will  follow  the  application  of  firm  pressures 
on  the  front  part  of  the  tongue,  and  on  the  floor 
of  the  mouth  directly  under  the  tongue. 

Also  moderately  tight  rubber  bands  should  be 
worn  on  the  thumbs  and  first  fingers  of  both 
hands  for  five  or  ten  minute  intervals,  several 
times  a  day.  This  might  be  supplemented  also 
with  strong  pressure  with  the  finger  and  thumb 
over  the  bridge  of  the  cougher's  nose. 

If  there  should  be  a  frontal  headache  asso- 
ciated with  the  cough — a  very  frequent  symptom 
if  the  cough  has  persisted  for  any  length  of 
time — the  finger  and  thumb  should  be  moved  up 
to  the  very  root  of  the  nose.  This  shall  be 
pinched  gently  for  several  minutes,  right  at  the 
place  where  the  nose  ends  and  the  eyes  begin. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  things  zone 
therapy  has  yet  done  (although  I  am  not  sur- 
prised at  anything  it  may  do)  was  to  cure  a 
forty-year-old  cough,  originating  in  a  tracheal 
(or  wind  pipe)  irritation.  The  patient  received 


132  ZONE    THERAPY. 

one  treatment  with  a  probe  (Fig.  8)  on  the  back 
wall  of  the  Epi-pharynx. 

She  experienced  relief  after  the  second  treat- 
ment, and  continued  to  improve  until,  at  the  ex- 
piration of  three  weeks,  she  was  discharged  as 
cured.  Now,  after  15  months,  there  has  been 
no  return  of  the  cough. 

Another  patient  with  bronchial  cough  asso- 
ciated with  lagrippe,  under  my  instruction,  re- 
lieved herself  by  pressures  made  with  the  finger 
and  thumb  over  the  bridge  of  the  nose,  and  by 
the  wearing  of  rubber  bands  around  the  thumbs 
and  first  fingers  of  both  hands. 

This  lady  reported  the  following  morning  that 
she  had  enjoyed  the  first  night's  sleep  she  had 
had  in  more  than  five  nights,  and  that  a  per- 
sistent and  most  annoying  headache  had  also 
cleared  up. 

These  results  are  quite  uniform,  and  can  be 
duplicated  by  any  one  who  will  try  patiently  and. 
painstakingly  to  duplicate  them. 

Indeed,  so  simple  is  the  procedure  that  I  have 
repeatedly  seen  bronchial  and  other  coughs,  re- 
sulting from  irritation  or  congestion  at  some 
point  in  the  air  passages,  completely  cured, 
merely  by  pressure  on  the  tongue  with  the  handle 
of  a  tablespoon  or  a  toothbrush.  And  many  of 
these  had  persisted  for  a  long  time. 


A  SPECIFIC  FOR  COUGHS.  135 

I  believe  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  every 
one  will  be  his  own  cough  doctor ;  when  mothers, 
instead  of  doping  their  children  with  dangerous 
opiates  or  stomach-destroying  nostrums  will, 
with  a  tongue  depressor,  or  a  probe,  do  success- 
fully in  a  few  hours  what  now  (to  perpetrate  an 
Irish  bull)  is  done  inadequately  or  not  at  all  in 
many  days. 

Here  is  the  knowledge.  There  are  no  patents 
or  restrictions  upon  it.  Every  one  is  free  to  use 
it  to  the  fullest  and  most  helpful  possible  extent. 


CHAPTER  14. 

HOW  A  PHANTOM   TUMOR  WAS   DISSIPATED. 

LAST  June  the  New  Hampshire  Dental 
Society  held  a  convention  at  Weirs,  on 
Lake  Winnepesaukee.  One  of  the  resi- 
dents of  the  summer  colony  was  brought  before 
the  convention  on  the  evening  of  June  23d.  Her 
serious  condition  baffled  the  local  physicians.  It 
was  hoped  that  among  the  two  hundred  scientific 
men,  gathered  there  from  all  parts  of  the  East, 
some  might  be  found  who  could  help  her. 

She  was  a  woman  about  thirty-five  years  old, 
well  nourished  and  apparently  healthy,  apart 
from  a  large  swelling  in  the  front  of  the  neck. 
Manifestly  the  thyroid  and  other  glands  had  be- 
come enlarged  through  some  unknown  inflam- 
matory cause.  She  was  suffering  great  pain. 
The  slightest  touch  caused  agony.  Swallowing 
was  impossible.  Not  even  a  drop  of  water  had 
passed  down  her  throat  since  the  preceding  Fri- 
day night.  This  was  Wednesday  night. 

A  healthy  human  being  can  exist  from  seven 
to  ten  days  without  water.  This  woman  had 
been  without  water  for  five  days,  suffering 
mental  and  physical  torture.  Her  physician  in- 

(134) 


A  PHANTOM  TUMOR  DISSIPATED.  135 

"C 

sisted,  as  the  only  means  of  saving  her  life,  that 
an  operation  be  performed  at  once.  The  half 
dozen  or  more  physicians  who  had  been  called  in 
consultation  concurred  in  this.  There  was 
nothing  left  but  to  perform  an  intubation  —  the 
insertion  of  a  tube  in  the  gullet,  through  which 
water  and  food  might  be  passed,  pending  some 
possible  measure  of  relief. 

The  heart  was  racing  along  at  one  hundred 
and  fifty  beats  a  minute,  and  there  were  all  the 
peculiar  symptoms  usually  associated  with 
thyroid  disturbances.  Inasmuch  as  the  whole 
trouble  had  developed  in  a  week,  it  was  most 
unlikely  that  the  condition  was  goitrous. 

As  it  was  probable  that  the  trouble  was  asso- 
ciated with  the  thyroid,  a  physician  present  de- 
cided to  try  zone  therapy,  because  it  could  be 
applied  instantly,  and  promised  immediate  re- 
sults if  successful. 

Calling  one  of  the  dentists  to  make  strong 
pressure  over  the  first  joint  of  one  thumb,  the 
doctor  grasped  the  other  thumb.  This  simple, 
apparently  foolish,  treatment  was  maintained 
for  three  minutes.  The  patient  began  to  show 
signs  of  relief.  The  drawn  lines  on  her  face 
softened.  She  could  bear  without  shrinking  the 
touch  on  her  neck. 

The  doctor  sent  for  a  glass  of  water,  and  held 


136  ZONE   THERAPY. 

it  to  the  patient's  lips.  She  took  a  sip  of  water, 
which  she  swallowed  with  much  difficulty  and 
pain  —  the  first  drop  in  five  days. 

"It  is  the  most  delicious  thing  I  ever  tasted," 
she  whispered. 

She  was  able  to  swallow  about  a  third  of  a 
glass  upon  her  first  attempt.  The  pressures  were 
continued  intermittently  for  about  an  hour,  and 
within  that  time  she  was  able  to  drink  four 
glasses  of  water  and  a  glass  of  malted  milk.  A 
light  rubber  band  was  placed  over  her  thumb 
joints,  and  she  enjoyed  her  first  night's  sleep 
since  the  inflammation  had  developed. 

The  next  morning  she  reported  that  she  was 
almost  entirely  relieved.  The  swelling  was 
hardly  perceptible,  and  she  could  bear  reasonable 
pressure  over  the  glands  without  discomfort. 
She  had  no  difficulty  in  swallowing.  In  a  few 
days  she  was  fully  recovered,  and  has  had  no 
return  of  the  trouble. 

With  the  relief  of  nerve  tension — consciously 
or  unconsciously  exerted — there  necessarily  fol- 
lows a  relief  in  either  the  constricted  or  the  con- 
gested condition  of  the  lymphatic  glands  or  ducts, 
the  thyroid  and  other  ductless  glands,  and  also 
of  the  vasomotor  nerves,  which  control  the  flow 
of  blood  through  the  blood  vessels. 

This  action,  no  doubt,  accounts  for  the  marvel- 


A  PHANTOM  TUMOR  DISSIPATED.  137 

ous  results  which  zone  therapy  has  produced 
in  the  treatment  of  glandular  and  circulatory  dis- 
eases —  whether  due  to  nervous,  or  physical 
causes. 

In  the  famous  "globus  hystericus" — that  big 
lump  comes  up  in  the  throat  of  an  hysteric- 
there  is  no  speedier  or  more  effective  treatment 
than  zone  therapy.  Merely  take  the  hands  of 
the  hysterical  individual,  squeeze  them  as  hard 
'as  she  can  bear  the  pressure,  and  maintain  this 
pressure  for  several  minutes.  Almost  imme- 
diate relaxation  of  all  the  zones  will  follow,  and 
with  this  relaxation  a  disappearance  of  the  great 
lump  in  the  throat. 

The  combs  or  the  wire  hair  brush  may  be  used, 
if  preferred.  Or,  if  none  of  these  are  available, 
merely  scratch  the  back  of  the  hands  with  the 
finger  nails. 


CHAPTER  15. 
DR.  WHITE'S  EXPERIENCE. 

ONE  of  the  most  thoro  and  able  diagnos- 
ticians in  America,  if  not  in  the  world, 
is  George  Starr  White,  M.  D.,  of  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  discoverer  of  the  bio-dynamic 
method  of  diagnosis.  I  reproduce  a  small  por- 
tion of  his  experiences  in  zone  therapy  and  zone 
anesthesia — as  detailed  in  his  Lecture  Course. 
"A  few  years  ago,  while  experimenting  on  the 
anesthetic  effect  of  the  Tesla  current,  I  observed 
that  by  giving  a  current  that  produced  a  severe 
shock  to  the  fingers,  I  was  able  to  pierce  them 
with  needles  and  not  feel  pain.  I  did  not  realize 
why  these  results  were  obtained.  But  experi- 
ments on  animals  gave  me  a  hint.  For  one  of 
my  horses  backed  into  a  window,  and  got  a  large 
piece  of  glass  into  the  sacral  region  (near  the 
tail).  We  tried,  without  success,  to  put  her  into 
a  narrow  stall  and  tie  her  legs  so  we  could 
operate,  as  a  large  incision  had  to  be  made  to 
extract  the  foreign  body.  Finally  one  of  our 
men  suggested  that  we  tie  a  slipper-noose,  which 
he  called  a  'twitch',  around  the  horse's  nose.  He 

(138) 


DR.  WHITE'S  EXPERIENCE.  139 

made  this  'twitch'  out  of  a  piece  of  thin  rope,  put 
it  on  the  horse's  nose,  and  we  started  to  operate. 
The  result  was  a  collision  between  the  horse's 
hind  legs  and  my  abdomen.  I  told  the  man  to 
put  the  'twitch'  on  again,  tie  it  tightly,  and  hold 
it  for  two  or  three  minutes.  Then,  altho  I  made 
a  deep  incision  to  take  out  the  glass,  the  horse 
did  not  flinch. 

"I  realize  now  that  we  used  zone  anesthesia, 
as  the  sacral  region  and  the  nose  are  in  the  same 
zone.  At  other  times  we  have  had  occasion  to 
do  minor  operations  on  cows  and  pigs  on  my  ex- 
periment farm,  and  have  noticed  that,  by  putting 
a  'twitch'  on  the  nose,  the  animals  did  not  seem 
to  experience  any  pain. 

"Also,  before  anesthesia  was  so  well  known,  I 
remember  seeing  surgeons  do  minor  operations 
on  individuals  who  would  take  no  chloroform. 
Almost  always  the  patients  closed  their  teeth,  or 
clinched  their  hands  on  some  rough  substance. 
Then  'they  could  stand  anything.' 

"Later  I  heard  Dr.  William  H.  Fitzgerald  ex- 
plain zone  therapy.  Then  I  realized  that  we  have 
always  used  zone  therapy,  although  we  did  not 
know  it. 

"After  spending  a  few  days  with  Dr.  Fitz- 
gerald. I  met  at  a  dinner  party,  a  lady  who  had 
a  severe  irontal  headache.  Obtaining  her  per- 


140  ZONE    THERAPY. 

mission  to  try  a  new  'cure',  I  exerted  pressure 
upon  the  thumb,  first  and  second  fingers,  and 
within  five  minutes  the  headache  had  disap- 
peared. I  had  similar  success  in  treating  a 
toothache. 

"I  shortly  afterwards  called  on  a  New  York 
physician  who  had  previously  been  one  of  my 
pupils,  and  asked  him  if  he  knew  anything  about 
zone  therapy.  He  said  he  did  not,  but  had  read 
about  it  in  some  of  the  journals,  and  thought 
'it  must  be  all  imagination.'  I  then  held  his 
fingers,  pretending  I  was  trying  to  see  how  much 
resistance  there  was  in  his  muscles.  Within  three 
minutes  I  laid  a  button  hook  on  his  eyeball  with- 
out his  flniching.  I  took  a  stickpin  from  his 
cravat,  and  pushed  it  into  his  cheek,  and  put 
several  pins  into  his  face,  without  his  feeling 
them.  He  could  not  bear  the  touch  of  a  pin  in 
any  other  zone.  He  called  his  wife,  and  she  was 
horrified  when  she  saw  him  so  'stuck  up.'  I  with- 
drew the  pins  and  sterilized  his  face.  He  is  now 
a  staunch  believer  in  zone  anesthesia. 

"At  several  of  our  lecture  courses  in  Chicago 
and  elsewhere,  I  had  an  opportunity  to  show 
these  methods,  and  made  some  very  interesting 
observations.  We  found  that  light  would  not 
contract  the  pupil  of  the  eye  that  had  been  at- 
tacked through  the  finger  zones  to  the  same  de- 


DR.  WHITE'S  EXPERIENCE.  141 

gree  as  the  pupil  of  the  eye  that  had  not  been 
so  attacked. 

"One  of  the  doctors  in  a  Chicago  class,  on 
hearing  of  zone  anesthesia,  told  me  that  about 
two  years  previous  he  was  suffering  from  in- 
guinal hernia  (rupture)  and  a  radical  operation 
was  advised.  He  went  to  the  hospital,  and  the 
anesthetist  began  to  prepare  him  for  the  anes- 
thesia. He  told  them  that  he  wanted  no  anes- 
thesia, as  he  was  going  to  have  the  operation 
done  without  taking  anything.  The  surgeon  was 
loath  to  operate  without  some  kind  of  general 
or  local  anesthetic,  but  he  told  him  he  wanted 
nothing,  as  he  thought  he  could  control  himself. 
The  surgeon  consented,  but  had  ready  chloro- 
form and  a  hypodermic  with  cocaine.  The  Doc- 
tor clinched  his  teeth  and  hands  with  all  his 
might,  and  put  himself  into  as  powerful  a  tension 
as  possible  for  about  three  minutes  before  lying 
on  the  table.  He  then  laid  down,  relaxed,  and 
said  'go  ahead.'  From  the  beginning  to  the  end 
of  the  operation  all  he  noticed,  he  said,  was  that 
there  was  something  going  on,  but  he  felt  abso- 
lutely no  pain.  I  looked  at  his  teeth,  and  saw 
that  the  occluding  (biting)  surfaces  were  very 
good  indeed,  which  accounts  in  a  great  measure 
for  the  efficacy  of  the  zone  anesthesia. 

"Dr.   Fitzgerald  has   treated  many  cases  of 


142  ZONE    THERAPY. 

cancer  and  tumor,  and  has  had  some  extraordi- 
nary successes  with  some  of  them.  He  carefully 
avoids  any  reference  to  the  value  of  zone  therapy 
in  these  conditions,  but,  to  my  mind,  the  results 
achieved  warrant  mention.  I  saw  two  most  in- 
teresting cases  in  his  practice.  One,  a  lady, 
about  55  years  of  age,  had  a  growth  on  the  side 
of  her  neck,  diagnosed  as  cancer.  By  the  bio- 
dynamic  method,  I  confirmed  this  diagnosis. 
This  growth  was  as  large  as  an  ordinary  sized 
orange,  and  very  hard  and  unyielding.  The  lady 
told  us  that,  until  she  began  being  treated  by 
means  of  zone  therapy  and  zone  analgesia,  she 
had  not  slept  for  months  without  some  opiate. 
For  more  than  two  years  now  she  said  she  had 
taken  no  opiates,  and  had  rested  without  any 
pain  when  zone  pressure  anesthesia  was  used. 

"When  I  saw  this  lady  the  size  of  the  growth 
had  diminished  from  this  treatment,  until  it 
would  not  be  recognized  except  by  palpation 
(feeling  with  the  fingers).  I  also  saw  her  photo- 
graph, taken  before  she  began  treatment,  and  the 
improvement  was  certainly  remarkable.  I  do 
not  know  whether  zone  therapy  will  ever  cure 
this  case,  but  we  do  know  that  it  is  making  life 
endurable  to  the  unfortunate  victim. 

"Several  of  my  pupils  have  used  the  Fitz- 
gerald method  for  operation  on  turbinate  and 


DR.  WHITE'S  EXPERIENCE.  143 

other  nasal  obstructions,  as  well  as  upon  obstetric 
(childbirth)  cases,  with  most  gratifying  results 
in  all  of  them. 

"Two  or  three  cases  out  of  ten  will  not,  it 
seems,  respond  to  zone  therapy.  ,But  the  ma- 
jority will.  There  is  no  doubt  a  good  reason  for 
the  failures,  such  as  blocking  of  the  'zone  paths' 
in  some  manner — as  by  a  tumor,  growth,  pus 
condition,  or  obstruction.  Or  again,  failure  may 
be  due  to  faulty  technic.  Better  results  will  no 
doubt  come  with  more  experience.  It  only  re- 
quires that  the  method  be  tried  out  on  a  huge 
scale,  and  by  a  large  number  of  competent  ob- 
servers. Then  the  collated  results  will  furnish 
us  a  basis  for  accurate  application  of  these  most 
wonderful  and  helpful  principles." 


CHAPTER  16. 

ZONE   THERAPY -- MAINLY    FOR   DENTISTS. 

THERE  are  four  reasons  why  zone 
analgesia — as  we  call  the  pain-relieving 
properties  of  zone  therapy — are  not 
more  generally  used  by  dentists.  One  is  that  the 
dentist  doesn't  wish  to  put  himself  in  the  em- 
barrassing position  of  suggesting  such  a  foolish- 
seeming  thing  to  his  pain-racked  patient.  An- 
other is  that  the  patient  herself  thinks  she's  con- 
ferring a  favor  upon  the  dentist  by  permitting 
him  to  spend  five  or  ten  minutes'  valuable  time 
in  attempting  to  alleviate  her  sufferings,  and 
make  the  ordeal  of  cavity  preparation  or  scaling 
comparatively  painless. 

Also,  to  press  over  the  roots  of  a  tooth  for 
three,  four,  or  more  minutes — exerting,  after 
toleration  is  established,  all  the  force  of  which  the 
operator  is  capable — is  hard  work.  It's  much 
quicker  and  easier,  and  less  likely  to  numb  the 
dentist's  thumb  and  finger,  to  "slap"  a  gas  cone 
over  the  patient's  nose,  or  inject  cocaine  around 
the  gums — which,  to  my  mind,  hurts  almost  as 
badly  as  having  the  tooth  extracted. 

(144) 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     145 

There  is  yet  another  reason,  however,  which 
partially  justifies  the  previous  three.  The  anal- 
gesic results  of  zone  pressure  are  not  sufficiently 
uniform  to  "bank"  on.  In  other  words,  a  dentist, 
led  by  previous  successes,  might  be  tempted  con- 
fidently to  assure  a  patient  of  the  painlessness, 
under  zone  analgesia,  of  a  certain  operation. 
But  when  he  commenced  to  work  he  might  al- 
most lift  the  top  of  his  victim's  head  off.  To 
obviate  this  do  not  limit  the  pressure  to  three 
minutes  only,  and  do  not  attempt  to  operate  or 
extract  until  a  puncturing  test  with  a  sharp  in- 
strument shall  prove  the  part  to  be  desensitized. 

Also,  I  would  here  emphasize  that  there  is  no 
use  in  attempting,  with  zone  analgesia,  to  relieve 
pain  if  it  is  desired  to  remove  a  nerve.  We  do 
not  pretend  to  explain  why  it  is  possible,  for  in- 
stance, to  work  thirty-five  minutes,  (as  demon- 
strated before  the  Mass.  Dental  Society  by  Dr. 
B.  A.  Sears,  of  Hartford)  and  cut  the  jaw  bone 
all  to  pieces  in  order  to  remove  an  impacted 
wisdom  tooth,  while  we  are  unable  to  thrust  a 
nerve  broach  into  a  root  canal.  But  the  fact 
remains,  and  some  time,  when  pathologists  and 
other  experts  have  studied  these  problems,  we 
may  know  why.  But  for  the  present,  we  must  be 
content  to  be  guided  by  dearly-bought  experi- 
ences. 

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146  ZONE    THERAPY. 

There  is  no  known  way  of  telling  in  advance, 
just  what  degree  of  analgesia  success  is  assured 
Dr.  M.  W.  Maloney,  of  Providence,  R.  I,  and 
Dr.  Wm.  J.  Hogan,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  claim 
successful  results  with  about  80%  of  their  cases. 
Dr.  Everett  M.  Cook,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  writes 
that  he  is  easily  successful  in  75%  of  his  cases, 
while  Drs.  Charles  H.  Riggs  and  George  O. 
McLean  report  success  in  large  measure.  Dr. 
Thomas  J.  Ryan,  of  New  York,  is  quite  uni- 
formly successful  in  desensitizing  the  gums  for 
pyorrhoea  treatment.  While  other  dentists 
range  on  down  to  as  low  as  50%  of  successes,  or 
even  to  zero. 

There  are  probably  very  definite  reasons  for 
this,  although  it  may  be  difficult  to  convince  the 
average  dentist  that  such  exist.  First,  it  requires 
a  fine  technic  to  find  the  various  dental  nerves, 
and,  by  commencing  gently,  and  gradually  in- 
creasing pressures,  to  anesthetize  them  without 
hurting  the  patient  more  than  the  operation 
might  have  hurt  him.  In  which  case  he  has  the 
pain  of  the  operation  plus  the  pain  of  attempt- 
ing to  analgesize  his  unresponsive  nerve  points. 

Next,  when  pressures  are  made  over  the 
fingers,  especially  where  no  clamps  or  rubber 
bands  are  used,  there  is  a  tendency  to  skimp  on 
the  time  devoted  to  the  finger  squeezing.  The 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     147 

dentist  or  his  assistant  will  give  the  job  a  "lick 
and  a  promise" — and  let  it  go  at  that.  They 
don't  use  sufficient  time  or  sufficient  force  really 
to  accomplish  anything. 

And  third,  they  won't  take  the  time  properly 
to  learn  the  zones  and  the  teeth  relations,  and 
apply  in  a  serious  way  the  knowledge  so  ac- 
quired. 

However,  for  the  benefit  of  those  dentists 
who  may  be  interested  in  learning  how  to  de- 
sensitize cavities  in  sensitive  teeth,  or  do  some 
of  the  necessarily  painful  scaling  of  tartar  and 
other  deposits  in  pyorrhea,  and  for  the  par- 
ticular benefit  of  several  million  of  their  patients 
throughout  the  country,  I  would  say  that  pres- 
sure by  an  assistant  exerted  over  the  joints  of 
the  thumb  (the  assistant  would  do  better  com- 
pletely to  "cover"  the  joint,  using  thumbs  and 
fingers  of  both  hands  for  this  purpose),  will 
mitigate  or  quite  control  the  pain  in  the  incisor 
and  occasionally  the  cuspid  teeth  of  the  side  cor- 
responding to  the  finger  being  squeezed. 

Never  let  the  patient  do  this  for  himself,  un- 
less you  provide  him  with  therapy  zones,  clamps 
or  wide  rubber  bands  for  the  purpose,  as  he  can- 
not be  trusted  to  make  the  pressures  long  enough 
or  strong  enough  to  accomplish  satisfactory 
results. 


148  ZONE    THERAPY. 

Pressure  exerted  over  the  first  or  second 
joint  of  the  first  finger  will  control  pain  in  the 
cuspid  and  bicuspid  teeth.  The  second  finger 
is  related  to  the  two  molars,  but  sometimes  the 
third  (or  ring)  finger  must  also  be  employed 
for  this  region. 

In  other  words,  pressure  upon  the  thumb, 
fore-finger,  middle,  and  ring  fingers  of  either 
hand  will  control  correspondingly  pain  in  the 
incisors,  cuspids  and  bicuspids  and  the  two 
molars  on  either  side  of  the  median  line,  pro- 
viding that  there  is  no  great  inflammation  or  no 
abscess  in  the  vicinity  of  the  corresponding 
teeth. 

Occasionally  the  "control"  over-laps,  in  which 
case  it  it  necessary  to  use  also  the  finger  next 
to  the  zone  finger,  and  in  the  case  of  wisdom 
teeth,  to  get  the  best  results  it  is  sometimes  ad- 
visable to  use  both  the  third  and  the  little  finger 
— as  the  fourth  and  fifth  zones  merge  in  the 
head. 

A  very  successful  method  practiced  by  some 
experts — particularly  where  extraction  must  be 
done  —  is  to  grasp  the  offending  tooth  as  near 
the  apex  of  the  root  as  is  practicable,  and  with 
the  thumb  and  finger  make  firm  pressure  for 
three,  four,  or  more  minutes  —  by  the  watch. 
This  usually  produces  a  degree  of  anaesthesia 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     149 

lasting  about  one  half  hour,  although  pressure 
can,  if  necessary,  be  reapplied  at  any  time. 
Other  dentists  and  oral  surgeons  get  excellent 


FIG.  '2:2.  —  Pressure  at  I,  Fig.  4,  with  thumb  and  ringer  will  anesthetize 
both  thumb  zones,  inasmuch  as  the  pressure  is  brought  directly  on  the 
median  line  and  to  the  right  and  left  of  it. 

Pressure  at  II  (pressure  on  inferior  dental  and  lingual  nerves)  will 
anesthetize  not  only  entire  iaw  on  side  compressed,  but  to  a  greater  or 
less  extent  the  entire  half  of  the  body. 

Pressure  at  a  with  thumb  and  ringer  will  often  anesthetize  that  zone 
sufficiently  for  painless  extraction.  Any  tooth  may  be  prepared  similarly. 

Pressure  at  b  with  thumb  and  finger  anesthetizes  bicuspids  and  occa- 
sionally molars. 

These  pressures  should  always  be  supplemented  by  pressures  from 
fingers  or  toes  of  patient  through  Therapy  Zones  or  otherwise. 

Pressure  at  III  will  aid  materially  in  anesthetization.  Dr.  B.  A.  Sears 
was  the  first  to  note  that  pressure  on  the  ring  finger  anesthetized  the  third 
molar,  and  Ur.  Chas.  H.  Riggs,  Dr.  W.  J.  Hogan,  Dr.  Geo.  McLean,  and 
Dr.  Charles  Barrett  of  Hartford,  and  Dr.  James  A.  "Lawton  of  Middletown, 
Conn.,  concur  with  him  in  this  observation,  and  all  of  the  above-named 
dentists  say  that  occasionally  they  must  look  to  the  little  finger  for  assist- 
ance in  anesthetizing  the  third  molar. 

results  by  pressing  on  the  "heel  of  the  jaw" — 
the  point  directly  back  of  the  wisdom  tooth, 
ponderously  known  as  "the  tuberosity  of  the 


-   150  ZONE    THERAPY. 

superior  maxillary."  This  produces  a  very  com- 
plete and  lasting  anaesthesia  of  the  entire  jaw 
of  the  side  affected,  and  permits  of  the  painless 
extraction  of  teeth  living  in  the  immediate 
neighborhood. 

With  the  lower  front  teeth,  it  has  been  found 
that  to  press  or  hold  the  inferior  (or  lower) 
dental  nerve,  where  it  enters  the  ramus  (or 
groove)  of  the  lower  jaw,  gives  good  anaes- 
thesia. Also  pressure  with  the  finger  on  the 
inferior  dental  nerve,  where  it  exits  from  be- 
1  nv  the  bicuspid  tooth  (called  by  doctors  the 
mental  foramen)  will  usually  anesthetize  that 
half  of  the  jaw. 

Many  operators,  the  better  to  "focus",  prefer 
to  use  the  blunt  end  of  an  instrument  (the 
handle  of  an  excavator  is  excellent)  upon  this 
inferior  dental  nerve. 

The  proper  application  of  these  principles  can- 
not fail  to  be  of  immense  value  to  the  dentist 
and  oral  surgeon  in  their  daily  practice.  In  re- 
lieving toothache  and  neuralgia,  in  removing  de- 
posits, in  extracting  teeth,  and  in  fact  in  most 
painful  operations  which  dentists  are  called 
upon  to  perform,  this  pressure  technique  should 
prove  invaluable,  as  many  dentists  are  learning 
every  day. 

And   further,   the  application   of  these  prin- 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     151 

ciples  will  inevitably  encourage  public  interest 
in  dentistry,  and  will  materially  diminish  the 
sum  total  of  pain  and  suffering  that  humanity 
is  called  upon  to  endure.  As  Charles  H.  Riggs 
D.  D.  S.  remarks:  ''Indeed,  it  is  common — and 


FIG.  23.  —  .Pressure  at  IV  supplementary  with  pressure  on  appropriate 
lingers  or  toes  will  no^t  only  anesthetize  the  third  and  fourth  zones,  but 
frequently  also  that  half  of  the  upper  jaw. 

Pressure  at  V  with  finger  covering  the  median  line  and  counter  pres- 
sure with  the  thumb  on  the  outside  of  the  jaw,  or  even  on  the  lip  directly 
opposite  the  finger,  will  usually  anesthetize  the  incisors  sufficiently  for 
painless  extraction. 

highly  gratifying  among  the  many  dentists  nov 
using  zone  analgesia — to  have  sensitive  patient 
those  upon  whom,  because  of  past  exhaustin. 
and  nerve-racking  experiences,  they  have  alwaj 
dreaded   working — say,    'Well,    Doctor,    if   yc 


152  ZONE    THERAPY. 

never  hurt  me  any  more  than  you  did  today  I 
shall  never  again  fear  to  come  to  you.' ' 

Mothers  will  find  this  method  a  safe  and  cer- 
tain means  of  relieving  themselves  and  their 
children  of  an  immense  amount  of  pain  and  dis- 
comfort. For,  while  they  cannot,  of  course, 
hope  to  possess  the  technical  knowledge  enabling 
them  to  find  and  exert  pressure  upon  the  nerves 
themselves,  it  is  a  comparatively  simple  matter 
for  them  to  rigidly  grasp  the  roots  of  an  aching- 
tooth  between  their  thumb  and  finger,  and  tem- 
porarily relieve  pain — at  least  until  they  can 
take  little  Alfred  or  Alice  to  the  dentist. 

If  this  may  not  seem  feasible,  they  can,  by 
remembering  the  fingers  that  correspond  with 
the  particular  zone  it  is  desired  to  influence,  do 
much  to  relieve  distressing  conditions  in  that 
zone  until  such  time  as  the  doctor  or  dentist  can 
be  visited,  by  squeezing,  or  by  applying  rubber 
bands  around  the  proper  fingers. 

For  example:  At  a  dinner  party  the  other 
night  one  of  the  guests  complained  of  severe 
pain  in  the  right  upper  first  molar.  I  told  her 
to  squeeze  firmly  the  joint  of  her  second  or 
middle  finger,  which  advice  she  considered  a 
very  ill-timed  and  pointless  joke.  Insisting  that 
I  was  serious  and  helpfully  disposed,  she  obeyed 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     153 

instructions,  and  in  a  very  few  minutes  beamed 
complete  relief  from  her  dental  anguish. 

Another  instance  in  which  toothache  was  re- 
lieved in  what  might  be  called  an  outre'  manner 
was  reported  by  Dr.  J.  F.  Roemer  of  Waukegan, 
111.,  who  operated  with  a  pair  of  rubber  bands 
upon  the  aching  teeth  of  a  young  traveling  man. 
Dr.  Roemer  writes  that  this  man  came  to  the 
office  with  an  extremely  painful  and  sensitive 
condition,  chiefly  affecting  the  incisor  teeth.  As 
the  knight  of  the  leather  bag  explained  it  his 
teeth  were  so  "sore"  that  he  could  not  eat  any 
solid  food  whatever,  and  he  didn't  much  relish 
the  food  he  drank.  It  was  impossible  for  him 
to  close  his  teeth  together  without  causing  great 
distress.  A  dentist  who  had  examined  the  sales- 
man could  find  nothing  wrong  with  the  teeth, 
from  the  dental  standpoint. 

Dr.  Roemer,  however,  examined  him  in  a 
characteristic  zone  therapy  way.  He  searched 
the  patient's  fingers  with  a  metal  comb  to  find 
out  what  was  the  matter  with  his  teeth.  This 
search  disclosed  the  presence  of  "spots"  on  the 
insides  of  the  thumb  and  first  finger  which  were 
acutely  sensitive  to  pressures  from  the  teeth  of 
the  comb. 

The  diagnosis  established,  the  treatment  was 
simplicity  itself.  Commencing  with  light  pres- 


154 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


.fr'lG.  24.  —  Patient  anesthetizing  the  left  jaws  in  the  first  zone,  by  firmly 
pressing  the  lip  directly  opposite,  between  the  thumb  and  index  finger  of 
left  hand,  indicating  the  area  with  the  right  index  finger. 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     155 


FIG.  25.  —  Stickpin  firmly  imbedded  in  a  section  of  the  anesthetized  area 
shown   in  Fig.   24. 


156  ZONE    THERAPY. 

sures  upon  these  sensitive  areas  the  doctor  grad- 
ually increased  the  force  applied  to  the  comb, 
at  the  same  time  engaging-  the  owner  of  the 
thumb  and  teeth  in  conversation  relative  to  his 
business,  and  to  the  political  situation — this  lat- 
ter a  perennial  source  of  interest-absorbing  con- 
versation in  the  West. 

After  about  ten  minutes  of  this  operation  the 
doctor  looked  up  and  asked  his  victim  "how  the 
teeth  were  getting  along."  After  cautiously 
testing  their  sensitiveness  by  means  of  various 
biting  pressures,  .  the  patient  responded  that 
"while  they  were  still  a  little  'sore'  the  pain  had 
entirely  left." 

The  doctor  then  issued  instructions  as  to  how 
to  apply  rubber  bands  in  order  to  make  the 
proper  pressure,  which  is  to  use  one-fourth  inch 
bands  about  two  inches  in  length,  bind  them 
around  the  first  joint — counting  from  the  tip— 
of  the  thumb  and  first  finger,  leave  them  on  until 
bluish  discoloration  appeared,  then  remove,  and 
re-apply  several  times  daily. 

The  traveling-man  reported  the  following  day 
that  he  had  enjoyed  a  good  night's  sleep — the 
first  for  many  nights  —  and  after  forty-eight 
hours  of  this  treatment  he  telephoned  that  all 
pain  and  sensitiveness  had  completely  disap- 
peared. 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     157 

In  neuralgia  and  other  painful  conditions  of 
long  standing,  where  there  are  no  decayed  teeth 
—or  other  dental  causes  for  the  pain — many 
permanent  cures  have  been  effected  by  pressure 
treatment.  Almost  it  would  seem  that  whatever 
tends  to  reduce  the  pain  would  also  help  remedy 
its  cause,  no  matter  how  remote. 

As  illustrating,  in  detail,  the  successful  "home 
treatment"  of  neuralgia,  another  case  of  Dr. 
Roemer's  is  most  interesting.  The  Doctor  says 
"I  saw  recently  a  patient  with  tri-facial  neuralgia 
of  two  years'  standing.  Nothing  had  relieved 
permanently.  The  attack  which  brought  him  to 
me  was  of  four  or  five  days'  duration.  During 
this  time  he  had  been  unable  to  eat.  Even  the 
attempt  to  speak  would  bring  on  an  acute 
paroxysm  of  pain  of  a  sharp  piercing  nature, 
which  radiated  over  the  entire  left  side  of  the 
face,  extending  from  the  lower  and  the  upper 
jaw,  and  up  into  the  left  eye.  These  paroxysms 
left  him  as  'limp  as  a  rag.' 

"He  had  been  advised  to  have  the  nerve  cut, 
as  offering  the  only  relief  for  his  trouble. 

"I  applied  rubber  bands  on  the  joints  nearest 
the  tip  of  the  thumb  and  forefinger  of  the  left 
hand.  In  less  than  ten  minutes  my  patient  was 
talking  and  laughing,  and  we  had  quite  a  visit. 

"I  told  him  nothing  about  what  was  being  at- 


158  ZONE    THERAPY. 

tempted  with  the  bands,  so  he  wasn't  'hypno- 
tized.' After  we  saw  results,  however,  I  in- 
structed him  to  apply  the  bands  every  half  hour 
if  the  pain  continued,  and  as  it  decreased  to 
lengthen  the  interval  of  the  applications. 

"When  next  I  saw  him,  several  days  after,  he 
laughingly  said,  'Oh,  I  apply  the  rubbers  once  a 
day  now,  as  I  don't  want  that  pain  to  come  back.' 
He  is  now  enjoying  life  better  than  he  has  for 
years,  thanks  to  'those  fool  rubber  bands,'  as 
his  daughter  called  them." 

Many  dentists  secure  a  very  satisfactory  de- 
gree of  analgesia  —  sufficient  for  excavating  or 
treatments — by  compressing  firmly  the  lip  or 
cheek  immediately  over  the  tooth  that  is  to  be 
worked  upon.  (See  Fig.  24.)  But  as  a  rule, 
for  extraction  purposes,  they  prefer  pressure 
over  the  roots,  or  directly  upon  the  various 
branches  of  the  dental  nerves.  (See  Figs.  22 
and  23.) 

One  of  the  most  significant  facts  in  connec- 
tion with  zone  therapy  is  the  intimate  relation 
between  morbid  dental  conditions  and  pain  or 
even  pathological  changes  in  practically  every 
section  of  the  body.  It  has  been  demonstrated 
beyond  a  shadow  of  doubt,  that  points — or  foci 
— of  infection  within  the  mouth,  or  in  the  teeth, 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     159 

frequently  manifest  disturbances  most  remote 
from  their  point  of  origin. 

This  is  one  reason  why  many  physicians  and 
surgeons,  using  the  method,  make  a  routine 
practice  of  sending  every  patient,  in  whom  dental 
disease  is  even  suspected,  for  a  thorough  over- 
hauling by  a  competent  dentist. 

Another  reason  for  striving  to  keep  all  our 
original  teeth  in  their  places  is  that  nature  in- 
tended to  preserve  the  continuity — if  it  may  be 
so  termed — of  our  various  nerve  zones.  Sound, 
healthy  teeth  and  roots  in  their  normal  occlusion, 
seem  to  assist  in  the  normal  functioning  of  the 
entire  zone  chain  of  which  they  are  important 
links. 

Asthma,  congestions,  headaches,  neuralgia, 
conditions  affecting  the  nerves  of  the  head  or 
the  ears,  or  even  partial  deafness,  have  been  ma- 
terially improved,  and  many  times  completely 
cured,  by  the  application  of  a  galvanic  cautery 
around  the  necks  of  the  teeth,  by  pressure  on 
the  teeth  themselves  in  the  zone  affected,  or  even 
by  having  the  patient  "grind'  the  particular 
teeth  related  to  those  areas  which  it  is  attempted 
favorably  to  influence. 

In  several  instances,  chronic  frontal  head- 
aches in  children  have  been  cured  by  correcting 
faulty  occlusion  of  the  front  teeth  by  that  branch 


160 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FIG.  26.  —  A  prominent  Connecticut  dentist  aresthetizes  the  entire  left 
halt  of  his  body  through  pressure  on  left  inferior  dental  and  lingual  nerves. 
The  inferior  dental  and  lingual  nerves  enter  all  zones  and  pressure  thereon 
if  held  sufficiently  long  will  influence  the  entire  side  of  body.  See  fol- 
lowing cut. 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY  FOR  DENTISTS.     161 


1-lG.  27.  —  We  might  have  covered  the  left  side  of  the  body  with  stick- 
pins without  his  knowledge,  as  far  as  pain  was  concerned,  during  the 
period  of  fifteen  minutes  of  anesthesia  which  followed  his  pressure  of  one 
minute  with  the  finger  on  the  left  inferior  -iental  nerve.  Note  the  stick- 
pins in  ear,  finger  and  leg. 


11 


162  ZONE    THERAPY. 

of  dentistry  known  as  "Orthodontia."  When 
after  several  months'  treatment,  the  teeth  were 
restored  to  their  normal  alignment,  and  con- 
tinuity of  the  nerve  zone  was  re-established,  the 
headaches  cleared  up,  and  there  has  been  no  re- 
turn of  them. 

Occasionally  it  happens  that  a  patient  will  go 
to  a  physician  who  uses  zone  analgesia  to  be  pre- 
pared for  the  services  of  a  dentist  who  doesn't. 
Only  recently  a  man  suffering  from  indigestion 
and  rheumatoid  arthritis  (rheumatism  of  the 
joints  with  progressive  stiffening)  was  advised 
by  his  physician  to  have  his  teeth  removed,  the 
doctor  insisting  that  because  four  wisdom  teeth 
were  the  only  teeth  he  had  that  were  not  decayed 
and  completely  broken  down,  nothing  else  would 
cure  his  indigestion  and  rheumatism. 

His  heart  action  was  such  that  it  would  have 
been  dangerous  to  administer  cocaine  —  much 
less  a  general  anesthetic. 

Therefore,  for  the  removal  of  his  27  teeth  and 
stumps,  the  pressure  method  was  decided  upon. 
His  physician  accompanied  him  to  the  dentist, 
and  doctor  and  dentist,  for  the  next  twenty 
minutes  made  the  proper  pressures  on  the  fingers 
and  on  the  inferior  dental  nerves. 

All  the  lower  teeth  were  then  removed — with- 
out a  particle  of  pain.  Pressures  were  then  re- 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY   FOR  DENTISTS.    163 

peated  on  the  fingers  and  the  palatine  nerves, 
and  the  teeth  in  the  upper  jaw  were  likewise  re- 
moved. 

Of  the  entire  27,  only  two  gave  much  pain  on 
extraction,  and  these  were  most  strongly  at- 
tached to  the  bony  processes  (the  sockets  and 
attachments  by  which  teeth  are  held  in  place). 
Bleeding  following  this  wholesale  extraction 
was  very  slight. 

It  may  be  interesting  to  know  that  after  the 
gums  had  healed  and  the  patient  had  worn 
artificial  teeth  for  a  few  months,  his  appetite 
and  digestion  improved,  he  began  to  gain  in 
weight,  and  there  was  an  almost  complete  relief 
from  the  rheumatic  symptoms  and  the  joint 
stiffening. 

In  some  instances  physicians  have  applied  the 
pressures  in  their  own  offices,  and  have  then 
sent  the  patients  —  with  rubber  bands  bound 
tightly  around  their  finger  joints  in  order  to 
maintain  the  analgesic  influence — to  the  dentist, 
where  their  extraction  or  cavity  preparation  has 
been  painlessly  done. 

And  occasionally  great  pleasure  and  satisfac- 
tion is  afforded  both  patient  and  doctor  when 
some  sufferer  calls  up  on  the  'phone  at  two  or 
three  in  the  morning  and  inquires  what  finger 
to  press  to  relieve  the  pain  of  a  certain  tooth, 


164 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FIG.  28.  —  Hand  and  arm,  left  eyelid  and  chin,  decorated  with  stickpins 
after  the  patient  has  anesthetized  the  left  side  of  the  body  by  pressui  e  on 
the  left  inferior  dental  nervet 


ZONE  THERAPY MAINLY   FOR  DENTISTS.    165 


FIG.  29.  —  A  lighted  match  is  held  beneath  patient's  right  great  toe, 
anesthetized  through  pressure  on  the  inner  surface  of  the  jaw  in  the  first 
zone. 


166  ZONE    THERAPY. 

especially  when  the  advice  given  has  been  fol- 
lowed by  relief. 

It  has  been  for  many  years  a  quite  general 
piece  of  knowledge  among  dentists  that  the  ap- 
plication of  menthol  to  the  mucus  membrane  of 
the  nose,  on  the  same  side  as  an  aching  tooth, 
would  very  frequently  stop  the  toothache.  If 
dentists  will  now  apply  a  slight  elaboration  of 
this  bit  of  zone  analgesia  technic  they  may  pos- 
sibly save  themselves  many  gray  hairs.  What 
their  patients  will  save  in  agony,  apprehension, 
and  the  drain  on  their  vitality  cannot  be  even 
estimated. 


CHAPTER  17. 

ZONE  THERAPY FOR   DOCTORS. 

THIS  chapter  I  have  copied  from  a  paper 
which  Dr.  FitzGerald  wrote  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1914.  He  has  since  read  it  as 
a  preliminary  to  his  illustrated  lecture  delivered 
before  physicians  and  dentists  in  many  cities  in 
this  country. 

We  grind  and  grit  our  teeth  during  paroxysms 
of  pain.  When  we  bump  our  shins  against  a 
rocking-chair  that  has  taken  point  of  vantage 
directly  in  our  path,  immediately  we  clasp  the 
offended  shin. 

In  the  days  before  the  blessed  era  of  nitrous- 
oxid  and  local  anesthetics,  when  the  muscular 
dentist  leaned  toward  the  door  with  our  pet  tooth 
in  the  firm  embrace  of  shiny  forceps,  we  helped 
him  to  the  utmost  by  gripping  the  arms  of  the 
chair  with  vise-like  clutch.  This  maneuver  seem- 
ingly had  no  more  connection  with  tooth  extrac- 
tion than  have  the  effulgent  rays  of  the  moon 
upon  the  pumpkin  crop.  But  we  felt  our  duty, 
and  we  did  it. 

When  fury  and  anger  sweep  us  in  their  red 
flame,  and  gentle,  familiar  aspects  of  nature  take 

(167) 


168  ZONE    THERAPY. 

on  the  hue  of  blood,  we  clench  our  fists  until 
the  nails  are  driven  deep  into  the  flesh.  In  the 
first  shock  of  the  agony  of  bereavement,  or  dur- 
ing those  cruel  dragging  hours  when  we  are  ad- 
justing ourselves  to  living  with  our  hearts  torn 
asunder,  we  clasp  our  hands  in  frenzy. 

For  ages  we  have  been  doing  these  things  be- 
cause they  are  natural  and  apparently  inevitable. 
We  did  them  automatically,  without  knowing 
why.  But  now  we  know  we  do  them  because 
they  are  instructive  and  scientific.  We  do  these 
things  involuntarily  and  automatically  because 
they  relieve  pain  or  nerve  tension — because  they 
produce  a  form  of  analgesia,  or  pain-deadening, 
similar  to  that  which  follows  the  injection  of 
water  or  some  anesthetic  solution  into  a  sensory 
nerve. 

Six  years  ago  I  accidentally  discovered  that 
pressure  with  a  cotton-tipped  probe  on  the  muco- 
cutaneus  margin  (where  the  skin  joins  the  mucus 
membrane)  of  the  nose  gave  an  analgesic  and 
sometimes  an  anesthetic  result.  But  years  before 
that  I  had  discovered  that  pressure  on  the  Epi- 
pharynx  was  followed  by  an  analgesia  and  often 
an  anesthesia  in  the  throat. 

I  further  found  that  there  were  many  spots 
in  the  nose,  mouth,  throat,  and  on  both  surfaces 
of  the  tongue  which,  when  pressed  firmly. 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  169 

deadened  definite  areas  to  sensation.  Also,  that 
pressures  exerted  over  any  bony  eminence,  on 
the  hands,  feet,  or  over  the  joints,  produced  the 
same  characteristic  results  in  pain  relief.  I 
found  also  that  when  pain  was  relieved,  the  con- 
dition that  produced  the  pain  was  generally 
relieved.  This  led  to  my  "mapping  out"  these 
various  areas  and  their  associated  connections, 
and  also  to  noting  the  conditions  influenced 
through  them.  This  science  I  have  named  zone 
therapy.  It  is  somewhat  complicated  in  many 
of  its  aspects,  but  I  shall  try  and  make  it  as 
clear  as  may  be.  I  would  emphasize,  however, 
that  to  master  it  requires  long  study  and  patient 
application. 

In  zone  therapy  we  divide  the  body  longi- 
tudinally into  ten  zones,  five  on  each  side  of  a 
median  or  central  line.  (See  Figs.  1  and  2.) 
The  first,  second,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  zones 
begin  in  the  toes  and  end  in  the  thumbs  and 
fingers,  or  begin  in  the  thumbs  and  fingers  and 
end  in  the  toes,  if  you  prefer  it  this  way.  For 
instance,  the  first  zone  extends  from  the  great 
toe  up  the  entire  height  of  the  body,  including 
the  chest  and  the  back,  and  down  the  arm  into 
the  thumb.  The  other  digits  are  related  to  their 
particular  zones,  in  like  manner. 

The  tongue  is  divided  into  ten  zones.     Pres- 


170  ZONE    THERAPY. 

sure  on  the  dorsal  (top)  surface  of  the  indi- 
vidual zones  on  the  tongue  affect  the  corre- 
sponding anterior  (or  front)  sections  of  zones 
everywhere  throughout  the  body.  But  firm  pres- 
sures on  the  tongue,  continued  for  several  min- 
utes, affect  both  back  and  front  of  zones.  The 
nostrils,  hard  and  soft  palate  (forming  the  roof 
of  the  mouth)  and  the  posterior  walls  of  the 
pharynx  (the  back  of  the  throat)  and  epipharynx 
(where  the  back  of  the  nose  and  throat  join)  are 
divided  in  the  same  way,  and  posterior  pressure 
or  contact  affects  posterior  sections  of  zones; 
while  anterior  pressure  or  contact  affects  anterior 
sections  of  zones.  Traction  (or  pulling  with  a 
hooked  probe  —  see  B,  Fig.  10)  on  the  soft 
palate  in  the  epipharynx  affects  the  anterior 
zones,  and  traction  on  the  anterior  pillars  of  the 
fauces,  (pillars  in  front  of  the  tonsils)  affects 
zones  one,  two,  three,  four  and  five,  especially  in 
arms  and  shoulders  in  the  posterior  sections  of 
zones.  Pressure  on  the  anterior  surface  of  the 
lips  and  the  anterior  surface  of  the  anterior 
pillars  of  the  fauces  affects  the  anterior  surface 
of  all  zones.  Pressure  on  the  posterior  surface 
of  the  lower  lips  affects  the  posterior  sections  of 
all  zones. 

Pain  in  any  portion  of  the  first  zone  may  be 
treated  and  overcome,  temporarily  at  least,  and 


ZONE  THERAPY -- FOR   DOCTORS. 


171 


FIG.  30.  —  The  nostrils  are  divided  into  five  longitudinal  zones  each 
beyond  the  vestibules.  The  lines  drawn  across  the  face  of  patient  in  figure 
represent  lines  of  analgesia  produced  by  pressure  with  applicator  at  short 
intervals  along  muco  cutaneous  margin  in  left  nostril. 

Upper  spot  in  neck  indicates  painful  spot  on  swallowing  in  the  third 
zone.  Pain  overcome  by  firm  pressure  of  metal  applicator  or  cotton- 
wound  applicator,  tip  of  which  may  be  slightly  moistened  with  trichloracetic 
acid,  spirits  of  camphor,  aromatic  spirits  of  ammonia  or  saliva  of  the  patient, 
on  third  zone  in  epipharynx.  Pressure  with  the  metal  applicator  without 
cotton  or  medication  is  often  all  that  is  necessary. 

The  lower  spot  represents  spot  of  irritation  exciting  cough  between  the 
first  and  the  second  zones  in  throat,  and  is  overcome  in  the  same  way  as 
above  except  that  the  pressure  is  made  in  corresponding  zones  in 
epipharynx. 

The  cuts  used  in  this  work  are  facsimiles  of  photographs  of  patients 
of  mine  described  in  my  illustrated  lectures  to  physicians  and  dentists, 
during  the  past  four  years. 


172  ZONE    THERAPY. 

often  permanently,  by  pressure  on  all  surfaces 
of  the  great  toe,  or  on  the  corresponding  parts 
of  the  thumb.  Should  the  pressure  be  limited  to 
the  upper  surface  of  the  great  toe,  the  anesthetic 
or  analgesic  effects  will  extend  up  the  front  of  the 
body  from  one  to  one  and  one-half  inches  beyond 
the  frontoparietal  suture  approximately.  They 
will  also  extend  across  the  chest  and  down  the 
anterior  surface  of  the  first  zone  of  the  arm  and 
thumb,  and  often  to  the  thumb  side  of  the  index 
finger.  Should  pressure  be  made  on  the  under 
surface  of  the  great  toe,  the  effects  will  extend 
along  the  first  zone  in  the  sole  of  the  foot  and  up 
the  back  of  the  leg,  thigh,  body  and  head  in  that 
zone  to  the  above-named  suture;  also  across  the 
back  and  down  the  posterior  surface  of  the  first 
zone  of  the  arm  and  thumb,  and  frequently  the 
thumb  side  of  the  index  finger. 

Firm  pressure  on  the  end  of  the  great  toe  or 
tip  of  thumb  will  control  the  entire  first  zone. 
Firm  pressure  on  the  tips  of  the  fingers  or  toes 
control  individual  zones.  Lateral  or  side  pres- 
sure on  thumbs  and  fingers  or  toes  will  affect 
lateral  or  side  boundaries  of  the  zones  pressed, 
and  also  transverse  extensions  to  nostrils,  lips 
ears  and  other  organs  of  excretion.  Fig.  30. 

A  limited  amount  of  anesthesia  may  often  be 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  173 

established  by  pressure  over  any  resistant  bony 
surface,  in  any  part  of  zone  compressed,  and 
often  the  mere  momentary  contact  with  the 
cautery,  or  pressure  with  a  sharp-pointed  ap- 
plicator, or  with  the  thumb  or  finger-nail,  will 
produce  the  same  result.  Contacts,  especially 
with  aluminum  combs  or  pointed  instruments, 
may  be  momentary,  if  frequently  repeated,  but 
protracted  contacts  are  often  necessary. 

Prolonged  pressure  with  an  aluminum  hair 
comb  is  fast  becoming  a  popular  method,  but 
similar  pressures  with  the  nails  of  the  thumbs 
and  fingers  are  likely  the  method  Nature  in- 
tended. Pressure  with  bands  of  elastic,  metal, 
cloth,  or  leather  on  the  fingers,  toes,  wrists  and 
ankles,  as  well  as  on  the  knees  and  elbows,  are 
often  useful  in  overcoming  pain  in  an  individual 
zone  or  group  of  zones.  If  these  pressures  are 
resisted  by  pathological  processes  elsewhere  in 
the  zone  or  zones,  pain  is  sometimes  excited.  In 
other  words,  if  there  is  an  abscess  or  some 
active  inflammatory  condition  present, — as  in 
middle-ear  trouble,  pressure  often  aggravates  or 
stimulates  the  pain  to  renewed  endeavors.  It 
usually  however,  overcomes  the  pain  momen- 
tarily. Zone  pressure  has,  for  this  reason,  be- 
come a  diagnostic  factor  of  great  value  in 
disclosing  hidden  pus  conditions  or  inflammatory 


174  ZONE    THERAPY. 

processes — particularly  in  the  roots  of  teeth,  the 
ears,  appendix,  ovaries,  or  in  other  organs. 

Pain  anywhere  in  any  zone  may  be  overcome 
more  quickly  by  pressure  with  an  applicator,  or 
with  cautery  contact  at  certain  points  through- 
out the  corresponding-  zone  or  zones  in  the 
mouth,  pharynx,  epipharynx  and  nose  or 
immediately  over  the  seat  of  pain,  but  the  finger 
and  toe  pressures  may  be  relied  upon  very  often. 
What  applies  to  one  zone  applies  to  all. 

Pressures  average  from  one-half  minute  to 
four  minutes  or  longer,  depending  upon  the  sus- 
ceptibility of  the  patient. 

Heat  or  cold  waves  in  varying  degrees,  de- 
pending upon  the  solution  or  instruments  used, 
may  often  be  dispatched  to  the  extremities  from 
the  mouth,  nose,  etc.,  and  similar  waves  of  heat 
or  cold  will  manifest  themselves  in  the  mouth, 
nose  and  pharynx  of  susceptible  individuals  from 
pressure  or  contact  on  the  extremities.  The  most 
susceptible  patients  will  describe  them  accurately. 
For  instance,  if  a  cotton  tipped  probe  be  dipped 
in  camphor  solution,  the  patient  will  describe  the 
sensation  reflected  along  the  particular  zone 
pressed  as  "cold."  If  in  trichloracetic  acid,  he 
says  it  is  "hot." 

The  majority  of  patients  say  th?t,  while  they 
are  unable  to  detect  these  sensations — only  extra- 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  175 

susceptible  individuals  have  this  faculty, — their 
pain  is  disappearing,  or  has  already  disappeared. 
Patients  who  are  most  susceptible  to  pressure  or 
contact  will  trace  heat  or  cold  from  an  individual 
hair  of  the  head,  or  an  eyelash,  to  the  margin  of 
the  finger-nail  or  toe-nail,  and  if  a  hair  or  eye- 
lash be  quickly  pulled  out,  the  sensation  of  numb- 
ness is  often  quickly  registered  beneath  the 
finger-nail  or  toe-nail  of  the  invaded  zone.  Touch 
the  drum  of  the  left  ear  of  one  of  these  patients 
with  a  cotton  or  rubber  covered  applicator  and 
he  will  tell  you  that  he  experiences  a  sensation 
into  the  ring  finger  or  correspond;ng  toe  on  that 
side  of  the  body,  but  touch  same  drum  with 
uncovered  tip  of  applicator  and  he  will  tell  you 
that  above  named  finger  and  toe  are  numb,  and 
examination  proves  that  they  are  anesthetized. 

This  is  simply  another  proof  of  electrical 
energy  within  the  body  and  may  be  demonstrated 
equally  well  from  many  different  parts  of  the 
body.  But  to  give  these  delicate  results  the  sub- 
jects must  be  very  responsive. 

Pressure  or  contact  upon  the  occlusal,  or 
biting,  edges  of  the  teeth  affect  the  innermost 
parts  of  practically  every  bone  in  the  body.  We 
believe  that  the  teeth,  being  the  most  accessible, 
are  the  natural  guardians  of  the  bones  through- 
out the  body.  The  heat  waves  from  the  applica- 


176 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


FIG.  31.  —  This  boy  at  18  months  of  age  became  paraplegic  following  an 
attack  of  infantile  paralysis.  Photo  shows  extent  he  was  able  to  raise  foot 
from  floor  when  he  first  came  for  treatment.  He  was  unable  to  move 
aifected  foot  backward  or  forward. 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR   DOCTORS. 


177 


FIG.  32.  —  After  six  treatments  this  boy  was  not  only  able  to  step 
forward  or  backward  with  affected  foot  but  could  kick  objects  held  at  the 
level  of  his  head.  "Home  treatment"  consisted  in  brushing  the  body  thor- 
oughly morning  and  night  with  a  wire  hair  brush,  and  in  making  firm 
pressure  on  the  palm  of  the  left  hand  and  the  sole  of  corresponding  foot 
with  a  metal  comb. 


178  ZONE    THERAPY. 

tion  of  a  fine  point  cautery  contact  on  the  biting 
edges  of  the  teeth,  are  dispatched  through  the 
centers  of  all  bones,  and  their  therapeutic,  or 
curative  effect  is  disseminated  through  the  bones 
and  tissue  in  the  zones  treated.  Naturally,  the 
therapeutic  effect  is  less  marked  as  the  surface 
of  the  body  is  approached. 

Pressure  or  contact  on  the  anterior  surface  of 
the  teeth  affects  the  anterior  surface  of  the  bones 
in  the  anterior  sections  of  zones,  and  to  a  greater 
or  less  extent  the  tissues  of  the  same  zones  in  the 
corresponding  sections.  Pressure  or  contact  on 
the  posterior  surface  of  the  teeth  affect  the  pos- 
terior surface  of  the  bones  in  the  posterior  sec- 
tions of  zones  treated,  and  to  a  greater  or  less 
extent  the  tissues  of  the  same  zones  in  the  cor- 
responding sections. 

An  asset  not  generally  recognized  in  normal 
occlusion  of  a  natural  set  of  teeth  is  the  ability 
of  the  patient  to  relax  practically  every  part  of 
the  body  through  firm,  biting  pressure  for  two 
or  three  minutes  on  all  surfaces  of  the  upper  and 
lower  teeth.  In  this  manner  pain  may  frequently 
be  relieved  in  any  section  of  a  zone,  or  group  of 
zones,  throughout  the  body,  and  occasionally 
even  anesthesia  may  be  induced  through  firm 
occlusion  of  the  teeth  for  two  or  three  minutes 
in  these  zones.  This  is  at  least  one  reason  why 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  179 

all  the  teeth  should  be  preserved,  if  at  all  possible, 
and  why  normal  occlusion  should  be  brought 
about  if  it  does  not  already  exist.  If  one  be  de- 
prived of  the  third  molar  teeth,  for  instance,  his 
ability  to  prevent,  relieve  or  overcome  patho- 
logical conditions  in  the  fourth  and  fifth  zones 
is  restricted;  and  this  naturally  applies  to  the 
various  individual  zones  or  group  of  zones  where 
teeth  have  been  extracted. 

You  would  hardly  believe  that  offending  corns 
or  warts  or  bitten  finger-nails,  where  inflamma- 
tory processes  have  been  excited,  may  be  respon- 
sible for  rheumatism  or  neuritis,  but  we  are  daily 
proving  such  to  be  the  case. 

Toe-nails  and  finger-nails  must  be  respected 
and  as  well  taken  care  of,  for  health's  sake,  as 
any  other  section  of  the  individual  zones.  There 
is  not  a  section  of  a  finger-nail  or  toe-nail  that 
may  not  affect  (under  stimulation  or  pressure) 
the  most  distant  parts  of  the  body. 

Also,  it  might  be  of  interest  here  to  note  that 
while  enough  pressure  is  good,  too  much  is  mild 
murder.  This  can  be  testified  to  by  all  who,  by 
means  of  new  shoes,  foolishly  apply  constricting 
pressures  to  their  toes.  There  ensues,  after  the 
lapse  of  an  appreciable  length  of  time,  a  condi- 
tion made  up  of  equal  parts  of  bodily  weakness 
and  nervous  irritability — an  actual  physical  and 


180  ZONE    THERAPY. 

spiritual  fatigue — relieved  only  by  removing  the 
pressure — in  other  words,  by  relieving  zone  pres- 
sure inhibition. 

Tight  belts,  corsets,  or  collars  will  develop 
similar,  or  even  worse,  effects,  inasmuch  as  their 
influence  embraces  not  only  the  undue  irritation 
of  the  nerve  zones,  but  also  the  constricting  in- 
fluences upon  glands,  blood  vessels  and  internal 
organs. 

All  zones  must  be  free  from  irritation  and 
obstructions  to  get  the  best  results.  For  instance, 
if  there  be  pain  in  the  head,  chest,  abdomen,  or 
extremities  in  one  or  more  zones,  it  may  be  re- 
lieved or  quite  overcome  by  pressure  on  resistant 
surfaces  anywhere  in  the  zones  affected.  If  the 
pain  be  relieved  for  a  few  moments  only,  and 
repeated  pressures  do  not  overcome  it,  it  is  safe 
to  assume  that  the  pain  is  due  to  some  abnormal 
pressure  or  irritation,  as  gas,  pus,  impactions 
necrosis,  etc.,  somewhere  in  a  zone  or  group  of 
zones,  which  demands  medical  or  surgical  inter- 
ference. 

We  are  repeatedly  called  upon  for  the  theory 
of  zone  therapy.  Many  theories  are  interesting 
but  not  conclusive,  and  rather  than  be  obliged 
to  retract  theories,  we  are  not  going  to  advance 
them,  except  very  superficially,  at  the  expense  of 
clinical  facts.  It  is  certain  that  control-centers 


XONI-:   THERAPY FOR   DOCTORS. 


181 


FIG.  33.  —  The  above  illustration  depicts  a  faucial  pillar  and  palaf ; 
retractor,  the  Therapy  Grip  and  a  combination  nasal  probe  and  Therapy 
Bite. 


182  ZONE    THERAPY. 

in  the  medulla  are  stimulated,  as  has  been  sug- 
gested, but  I  believe  that  it  is  shock  more  often 
than  stimulation.  Some  theorists  have  pointed 
out,  perhaps  rightly,  that  "these  functions  may 
be  carried  out  by  the  pituitary  body  (a  ductless 
gland  at  the  base  of  the  brain)  through  the 
multiple  nerve  paths  from  it." 

We  know  that  we  induce  a  state  of  inhibition 
— a  state  which  prevents  the  transmission  of  the 
nerve  impulse  from  the  brain — throughout  the 
zone  where  pressure  is  brought  to  bear.  We 
know  that  when  this  inhibition  of  irritation  is 
continuous,  many  pathological  processes  disap- 
pear. We  are  certain  that  lymphatic  relaxation 
follows  pressure,  and  the  lymph  stimulated  to 
flow  normally  in  its  channels. 

The  theory  advanced  by  Dr.  Bowers:  "that 
inasmuch  as  there  are  ultra-microscopic  bacteria 
— bacteria  not  seen  through  even  the  highest- 
powered  lenses, — it  is  more  than  likely  that  in 
the  light  of  this  work  there  are  ultra-miscro- 
scopic  connections  analogous  to  those  we  call 
nerves,"  may  contain  some  elements  of  plausi- 
bility. 

Let  the  physician  or  the  dentist,  who  ascribes 
these  phenomena  to  suggestion,  attempt  to  re- 
lieve an  aching,  left  incisor,  for  instance,  by 
pressing  the  little  finger  of  the  right  hand  of  his 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  183 

patient,  or  exercise  his  persuasive  powers  on  a 
throbbing  molar  by  pressing  the  thumb  of  either 
hand.  He  will  find  himself  up  against  a  stone 
wall,  so  far  as  results  are  concerned,  for  only  by 
exerting  proper  pressure,  on  the  proper  zone  or 
zones,  for  an  adequate  length  of  time,  will  the 
pain  disappear.  Anticipating  such  contentions, 
and  to  avoid  the  merest  hint  at  suggestion,  we 
have  purposely  refrained  from  giving  many 
patients  any  idea  that  we  were  even  contemplat- 
ing the  relief  of  pain,  and  the  first  and  only 
suggestions  have  been  from  the  patient.  He 
will  tell  that  he  experienced  pain  in  his  jaw,  eye, 
small  of  back,  knee,  foot,  or  shoulder  before  pres- 
sure was  made  on  his  fingers,  teeth,  or  else- 
where, and  will  ask,  "where  has  the  pain  gone? 
Have  you  done  anything  to  relieve  it?" 

Pathological  conditions  from  irritation  in  the 
nose,  epipharynx,  pharynx,  mouth,  vagina,  rec- 
tum, etc.,  may  be  responsible  not  only  for  an- 
noying local  manifestations,  but  for  obscure 
pathological  changes  in  the  most  remote  sections 
of  the  body;  and  their  course  can  usually  be 
traced  through  an  individual  zone  or  group  of 
zones.  There  is  not  an  existing  pathological 
condition  that  cannot  at  least  be  relieved,  and  a 
large  proportion  can  be  cured  by  zone  therapy. 

This  shows  how  necessary  it  is  that  the  physi- 


184  ZONE    THERAPY. 

cian  and  surgeon  should  be  capable  of  diagnosing 
and  treating  disease  in  all  parts  of  the  body, 
especially  if  his  practice  be  limited  to  the  coun- 
try, where  he  may  be  unable  to  consult  with 
specialists.  If  the  pathological  condition  he  has 
treated  does  not  "clear  up,"  the  case  should  be 
referred  to  the  specialist  or  dentist,  for,  to 
secure  results,  all  parts  of  the  zones  or  group  of 
zones  must  be  free  from  obstruction  and  irrita- 
tion. 

Zone  therapy  demonstrates  the  co-relation  of 
all  parts  of  the  body,  also  the  manner  in  which 
pressure  or  contact  upon  certain  zones  is  effec- 
tive in  the  relief  of  pain  or  disease. 

Diagnosis  of  the  cause  of  pain  may  be  worked 
out  quite  perfectly  over  or  through  any  zone  or 
part  of  zone.  If  a  patient  complains  of  pain, 
and  indicates  that  the  right  eye  is  involved,  and 
you  overcome  the  pain  by  pressure  on  the  front 
of  the  right  index  finger,  it  is  absolutely  certain 
that  his  disturbance  is  excited  by  congestion  or 
irritation  in  the  anterior  section  of  the  zone;  but 
if  it  be  necessary  to  look  to  the  palmar  surface 
of  the  index  finger  for  relief  the  cause  is  certain 
to  exist  in  the  posterior  section  of  the  zone  or 
zones. 

We  have  never  suggested  this  work  as  a 
panacea,  but  finding  it  helpful  in  the  treatment 


ZONE  THERAPY FOR  DOCTORS.  185 

of  human  ills,  we  consider  it  an  asset  to  our 
knowledge  of  medicine  and  surgery,  and  have 
been  glad  to  offer  it  gratuitously  to  physicians, 
surgeons,  and  dentists,  and  to  all  who  can  make 
use  of  it  in  the  relief  of  afflicted  humanity. 


186 


ZONE    THERAPY. 


Valens  Metronomic  Interrupter  (style  D) 

(For  Producing  Dr.  White's  Pulsoidal  Current) 
FIG.    34. 


CHAPTER  18. 

FOOD  FOR  THOUGHT. 

WHEN  "Professor"  Robert  Fitzsimmons 
delivered  the  famous  punch  in  the 
solar  plexus  that  laid  the  mighty 
James  Corbett  upon  whatever  it  is  they  cover  a 
boxing  ring  with,  he  demonstrated  to  everybody's 
satisfaction — except  perhaps  Mr.  Corbett's — 
that  there  is  a  group  of  nerves  in  the  "pit  of  the 
stomach"  which  has  an  intimate  and  most  dis- 
tressful connection  with  the  brain.  And  now 
every  doctor  knows  the  functions  and  connec- 
tions of  the  pneumogastric  nerve. 

Gunmen,  pugilists,  and  "bouncers'5  also  know 
that  if  the  temple,  or  the  angle  of  the  jaw,  be 
even  lightly  "tapped,"  the  tappee  is  usually 
placed  hors  de  combat  for  an  appreciable  period 
of  time.  General  knowledge  of  this  weighty 
academic  subject  is  comparatively  recent — as 
time  is  reckoned. 

And  the  Japs,  in  their  uncanny  knowledge  of 
nerve  anatomy,  exemplified  in  their  proficiency 
in  jui  jitsu,  have  shown  that,  by  pressure  upon 
certain  nerve  terminals,  or  upon  plexuses  of 

087) 


188  ZONE    THERAPY. 

nerve  groups  they  are  able  to  do  almost  every- 
thing except  murder  a  victim.  Perhaps  they 
could  do  this,  also,  if  they  were  sufficiently  in- 
dustrious and  persevering. 

Indeed,  for  many  years  they  have  been  aware 
that  there  are  certain  nerve  centers  in  the  neck 
and  under  the  angle  of  the  jaw,  pressure  upon 
which  will  temporarily  suspend  consciousness. 
In  fact,  their  methods  were  tried  by  surgeons, 
prior  to  the  discovery  of  anesthesia;  but  were 
discarded,  owing  to  the  fact  that  no  one  could 
guarantee  that  the  patients  would  wake  again 
after  the  operation. 

Also,  as  showing  how  great  oaks  from  little 
acorns  grow,  and  how  mickle  and  mickle  makes 
muckle,  Professor  William  Halstead,  more  than 
a  dozen  years  ago,  was  operating  upon  a  man 
with  a  rupture — under  cocaine  anesthesia,  as  he 
thought.  It  was  found,  however,  after  the  opera- 
tion had  been  painlessly  completed,  that  the 
moon-stricken  assistant  had  forgotten  to  put  the 
cocaine  tablet  in  the  syringe. 

So  that  all  the  anesthetic  the  patient  got  was 
sterile  water.  However,  this  was  enough,  for 
the  pressure  of  the  water  injection  into  the  parts, 
had  blocked  the  nerve  tract,  and  inhibited  the 
transmission  of  the  message  of  pain. 

This  experience  may  or  may  not  have  given 


FOOD  FOR  THOUGHT.  189 

Dr.  Crile  the  clue  to  his  interesting  and  vastly 
important  discovery  of  "nerve  block,"  but,  in  any 
event,  we  learned  something  new  about  the 
human  body.  But — and  this  is  the  point  I  wish 
to  emphasize  —  we  are  not  through  learning 
about  it  yet. 

So,  if  some  time  a  doctor  tells  you  that  a 
woman  of  sixty-nine,  suffering  for  years  from 
one-sided  paralysis,  made  pressures  twice  daily 
with  an  aluminum  comb  on  the  top  (or  front) 
of  the  hand,  favoring  the  thumb  side — and  in 
two  weeks  noticed  a  decided  improvement,  and 
after  five  months  can  now  lift  her  foot  free  from 
the  floor  and  walk  without  a  cane,  don't  sneer. 

If  another  tells  you  that  a  case  of  infantile 
paralysis,  of  five  years'  standing — after  several 
months'  treatment  with  a  probe  on  the  back  wall 
of  the  pharynx,  can  now  kick  as  high  as  his 
shoulder  with  either  foot,  don't  scoff.  For  that 
doctor  has  photos  of  the  boy,  showing  him  in  the 
act  of  doing  just  this  identical  thing. 

It  may  also  be  that  catarrhal  appendicitis  is 
helped.  For  in  unorthodox  ways  three  cases  of 
catarrhal  appendicitis  were  apparently  cured  by 
pressures  exerted  with  a  comb  over  the  first, 
second  and  third  finger,  and  carried  up  as  far  as 
the  wrist.  These  cases  were  diagnosed  as 
catarrhal  appendicitis  by  several  competent 


190  ZONE    THERAPY. 

medical  men.  They  showed  all  the  classical 
symptoms,  including  pain  on  pressure  over  Mc- 
Burney's  point,  vomiting,  and  digestive  dis- 
turbances. They  were  treated  three  times  daily 
for  several  days,  and  in  the  interim,  treated 
themselves  at  home  along  the  same  lines.  In  ten 
days  to  two  weeks,  there  was  an  apparent  cure 
of  all  three  cases.  And  now,  after  six  months, 
there  has  been  no  return  of  the  condition. 

And,  speaking  of  appendicitis,  it  is  interesting 
to  note  that  if  pain  is  relieved  by  zone  pressure, 
and  returns  after  a  few  minutes,  we  can  be 
morally  certain  that  there  is  pus  present.  This 
same  thing,  as  we  before  observed,  applies  to 
abscesses  in  the  ear,  teeth,  tonsil,  or  anywhere 
else. 

The  injunction  to  "prove  all  things  and  hold 
fast  to  that  which  is  true,"  is  as  applicable  and 
pertinent  today  as  it  was  when  first  dropped 
from  the  lips  of  the  old  sage.  So,  if  some  time 
your  progressive  doctor  should  tell  you  to  rub 
your  finger  nails  together,  and  scratch  your 
hands  and  arms,  and  thereby  cure  falling  hair, 
don't  laugh — because  he  may  be  repeating  to 
you  only  what  numbers  of  his  patients  have  told 
him  they  did — and  stopped  their  hair  from 
leaving  its  moorings. 

Also,  if  he  tells  you  to  use  a  wire  brush  on  the 


FOOD  FOR  THOUGHT.  191 

front  and  back  of  the  hand,  and  also  press  with 
the  aluminum  comb  on  the  palms  of  the  hand,  to 
cure  cold  feet,  he  may  not  be  nearly  as  crazy  as 
he  sounds.  He  may  be  merely  a  little  ahead  of 
your  time,  as  were  Harvey,  Semmelweis,  Horace 
Wells,  Lister,  and  hundreds  of  others,  who  have 
suffered  the  slings  and  arrows  of  ridicule. 

And  so,  we  who  believe  in  zone  therapy  now 
understand  why  we  grind  our  teeth.  It  is  be- 
cause the  action  relieves  nerve  tension,  and 
diminishes  the  pain  in  all  the  zones  of  the  body 
connected  by  those  invisible  and  as  yet  undis- 
covered nervous  wires  strung  through  those  tele- 
graph poles,  the  teeth. 

When  we  grab  our  bruised  shins  we  check  the 
transmission  of  pain  in  the  irritated  nerve  trunk 
lines  of  that  zone.  When  we  grasp  the  arm  of 
the  dental  chair,  and  hang  on  like  grim  death, 
we  are  unconsciously  going  through  motions 
that,  if  continued  long  enough,  would  have  made 
our  trial  comparatively  painless.  The  only  fault 
in  our  preparation  for  the  ordeal  was  that  we 
should  have  started  our  pressure  grip  three  or 
four  minutes  earlier.  But  our  intentions  were 
good. 

When  automatically  we  clench  our  fists  in 
furious  anger,  we  are  relieving  our  terrific 
nervous  excitation,  and  thereby  perhaps  pre- 


192  ZONE    THERAPY. 

venting  the  bursting  of  a  blood  vessel.  When 
we  clasp  the  hands  of  one  sorely  stricken  and  in 
the  throes  of  despair,  we  are,  in  addition  to 
supplying  him  with  comforting  magnetism  and 
physical  solace,  producing  a  distinctly  analgesic 
and  quieting  effect  upon  his  entire  nervous 
system. 

And  when  we  clasp  our  hands  or  press  the 
fingers  tightly  together  in  supplication,  we  are 
ministering  to  over-wrought  nerves,  and  there- 
by perhaps  bringing  ourselves  into  closer  har- 
mony with  the  great  Cosmic  Force  that  envelopes 
us  all  in  a  mantle  of  kindness  and  love. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

KEY  TO  ZONE  THERAPY  AND  THERAPEUTIC  INDEX. 

THE  KEY. 

1  —  thumb. 

2  —  index  finger. 

3  —  middle  finger. 

4  —  ring  finger. 

5  —  little  finger. 

I  — -  great  toe. 

II  —  second  toe. 

III  —  third  toe. 

IV  —  fourth  toe. 

V  —  fifth  toe. 

Z  —  thumbs  and  all  fingers. 

O  —  all  toes. 

N  —  tongue  depressor. 

E  —  wire  hair  brush. 

T  —  rubber  bands  or  umbrella  rings. 

H  —  Therapy  Zones. 

E  i  —  Therapy  Comb  or  Dr.  White's  Comb  Electrode. 

See  Paralysis. 

R  —  thumb  and  index  finger. 
A  —  cotton  tipped  probe. 
P  — -  mouth  and  pharynx. 
Y  —  nose  and  epipharynx. 

A  desert  or  tablespoon  handle  may  be  used  instead 
of  the  tongue  depressor  when  necessary. 
13  (193) 


194  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

See  Therapy  Zone,  page  196. 

H  when  required  should  be  worn  from  3  to  15 
minutes  several  times  daily.  See  page  198. 

When  necessary  the  treatments  herein  outlined 
may  be  given  safely  in  conjunction  with  any  other  form 
of  treatment. 

The  fingers  should  be  used  for  dilating  orifices 
wherever  possible. 

Ascertain  character  of  secretion  of  mouth  through 
litmus  test  of  every  patient. 

Patient  should  be  taught  how  to  exert  pressure  on 
anterior  pillars  of  fauces  with  2  or  3  and  how  also  to 
be  able  to  go  over  the  entire  P  without  exciting  gagging. 
Practice  will  accomplish  this. 

It  must  be  remembered  that  pressure  may  be 
exerted  over  any  resistant  portion  of  the  anterior  half 
of  a  zone  to  relieve  or  overcome  pathological  conditions 
in  that  section  of  zone. 

The  same  applies  to  posterior  pressure  on  posterior 
half  of  zone  or  zones. 

One  half-minute  of  pressure  is  usually  the  minimum 
limit  of  time  necessary  to  overcome  pain,  while  twenty 
minutes  is  usually  the  maximum.  Start  pressures  gently 
and  gradually  increase  to  the  hurting  point.  Encourage 
patient  to  endure  the  pain  excited  by  the  instrument, 
especially  on  the  extremities.  The  pain  is  always  more 
marked  in  zone  or  zones  affected,  but  gradually  sub- 
sides. If  it  does  not,  remove  the  pressure  temporarily, 
or  attack  a  more  resistant  area  in  the  same  zone  or 
zones. 

The  dividing  line  in  the  head  is  approximately  from 
an  inch  to  one  and  one-half  inches  behind  the  fronto- 
parietal  suture.  The  dividing  line  on  the  extremities 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  195 

is  an  imaginary  line  drawn  horizontally  across  the 
center  of  the  tips  of  the  thumbs,  fingers  and  toes,  and 
continued  vertically  up  the  sides  of  same  at  centre. 

The  effectiveness  of  Hydrotherapy,  Electrotherapy, 
Mechanotherapy,  etc.,  will  be  greatly  increased  if  com- 
bined with  Zone  Therapy. 


FIG.  35 

THE  THERAPY  ZONE. 

Spiral  spring  nickle  steel  rings  for  relief  of  pain 
or  irritation  throughout  the  body.  They  are  called 
Therapy  Zones.  They  should  be  rolled  up  the  thumbs, 
ringers  or  toes  rather  firmly,  driving  the  circulation 
out  of  these  parts.  They  may  be  worn  on  the  joints 
or  between  the  joints  of  fingers  or  toes  from  three 
to  twenty  minutes  or  longer,  several  times  daily.  The 
circulation  should  not  return  to  the  finger  or  toe  while 
the  Zone  is  being  worn.  If  it  does  the  Zone  should  be 
withdrawn  and  then  replaced. 

If  the  blood  pressure  of  the  patient  is  high  or  if 
the  Zones  are  a  bit  large  this  is  likely  to  occur.  A 
smaller  size  may  in  such  cases  be  worn.  Superficial 
sections  of  the  body  are  easily  reached  through  the 
pressure  exerted  by  the  Therapy  Zones  just  above  the 
nails  of  the  fingers  or  toes,  and  the  deeper  structures 
are  usually  best  treated  through  the  pressure  of  the 
Therapy  Zones  as  the  web  between  fingers  or  toes  is 
approached  and  reached.  This  is  not  an  invariable  rule 
however. 

(196) 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  197 

There  is  hardly  a  pathological  condition  that  cannot 
be  benefited  through  the  application  of  the  Therapy 
Zones  on  appropriate  fingers  or  toes,  while  many  patho- 
logical changes  are  absolutely  overcome.  We  believe  we 
have  found  a  way  to  help  bring  about  an  "equilibrium 
in  the  human  body  to  put  at  rest  unrest  of  tissue."  They 
may  be  used  with  perfect  safety  in  conjunction  with  any 
other  form  of  treatment. 

Note.  —  If  for  instance,  any  part  of  zone  one  re- 
quires treatment  place  Therapy  Zone  on  thumb  or  great 
toe  of  side  involved.  Treat  other  zones  involved  through 
their  respective  fingers  or  toes. 


198 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 


"THERAPY  ZONES"  IN   POSITION. 

Above    illustrates    method    of    placing    Therapy    Zones    where    superficial, 
intermediary   or  deep   sections   of  the   body  are   affected. 


TREATMENT. 
Abdomen,  pain  in. 

T,  H  or  E  i  on  Z  or  O  or  both,  or  grasp  appropriate 
foot  or  hand  of  patient  and  press  firmly  with  both  hands 
from  i  to  8  or  10  minutes.  (Metal  is  preferable  where 
pressure  is  necessary.  Elastic  bands,  hollowed  out 
clothes-pins,  etc.,  are  useful  but  do  not  approach  the 
Therapy  Zone  in  efficiency.)  See  Stomach. 

Abortion  (miscarriage),  prevention  of. 

Stroke  front  of  hands  and  feet,  with  E  or  E  i. 
(The  so-called  back  of  the  hand  is  really  the  front.  It 
corresponds  with  the  top  or  front  of  the  foot.)  Strokes 
may  be  carried  over  wrists  and  up  forearms  rather 

slowly. 

Angina  Pectoris. 

T,  H  or  E  i  on  Z  or  O  of  left  side  or  both,  and 
pressure  may  also  be  exerted  as  above. 

R  or  web  clamps  on  appropriate  finger  and  thumb 
webs.  Hook  pressure.  See  Inferior  Maxilla,  also 
Deafness. 

Anaesthesia. 

Treat  according  to  zone  with  H  and  as  otherwise 
recommended  in  "Zone  Therapy." 

I  or  A  on  inferior  dental  and  lingual  nerves  will 
often  anaesthetize  that  half  of  the  body.  Pressure 
should  be  continued  at  least  3  minutes. 

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200  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

H  on  Z  and  O.  Patient  should  bite  firmly  a  flat 
piece  of  metal,  i.  e.,  back  of  therapy  comb  The  Zone 
Therapy  "Bite"  is  also  recommended,  especially  when 
the  occlusion  is  faulty.  Where  the  occlusion  is  normal 
the  patient  will  get  best  results.  See  Toothache. 

Arm. 

T,  H,  E  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both  and  manipulation  as 
recommended  under  Foot,  etc. 

Asthma. 

Traction  of  soft  palate  with  finger  or  hook  probe. 

T  or  H  on  I,  2,  3,  4  or  5  or  all  five,  also  on  O  if 
necessary  for  10  to  15  minutes  several  times  daily. 

Press  lip  firmly  against  teeth  with  2. 

Stretch  lips.     See  Bronchitis. 

Hook  pressure.  See  Inferior  Maxilla,  also  Deaf- 
ness. 

Attack  anterior  sections  of  zones  through  down- 
ward pressures  in  outer  half  of  nostrils  and  posterior 
sections  of  zones  by  like  pressure  in  posterior  half  of 
nostrils. 

T  or  H  on  i,  2  and  3. 

i  on  median  line  of  hard  palate  and  to  right  or  left 
of  it  as  the  condition  requires. 

H  and  E  i  on  appropriate  thumbs,  fingers  and  toes. 

A  and  cautery  contacts  on  appropriate  zones  in  P 
and  Y. 

Backache. 

See  Lumbago. 


KEY   TO    ZONE   THERAPY.  201 

Bladder. 

T,  H,  Z  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both  from  3  to  20  minutes 
several  times  daily. 

Bite  tongue  or  lips. 

E  i   on  appropriate  sections  of  extremities. 

N  on  tongue. 

(The  firm  setting  of  jaws  or  biting  upon  metal  is 
helpful  in  all  treatments,  especially  if  the  occlusion  is 
normal.) 

Hook  pressure.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Blood  Pressure,  to  lower. 

T,  H,  E  i   or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both  on  and  between 
joints  and  well  into  web  between  thumb  and  fingers. 
Pressure  with  Z  on  zones  i,  2  and  3  in  epipharynx. 

Blood  Pressure,  to  raise. 

H  and  E  i. 

Rapid  stroking  over  above  areas  for  thirty  seconds 
several  times  daily,  and  for  several  minutes  over  the 
entire  body  morning  and  night. 

Bones. 

See  Toothache. 

Breasts. 

T,  H  or  E  i  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

N  on  tongue. 

Pressure  of  cautery,  galvano  or  chemical,  (as  strong 
trichloracetic  acid  lightly  applied)  on  gum  margins  in 
appropriate  zones. 

Hook  pressures.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Hook  pressures  on  clavicle  and  sternum.  See 
Goitre. 


202  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Bronchitis. 

Pass  A  through  nose  to  epipharnyx.  When  exact 
location  is  reached  the  patient  will  feel  a  sensation  in 
his  throat  corresponding  to  zones  in  bronchi.  Pressure 
should  be  firmly  maintained  on  appropriate  zone  or  zones 
from  i  to  3  minutes  or  longer.  Best  results  are  often 
obtained  through  use  of  medicated  probes. 

T,  H  or  E  i  on  i,  2  and  3  several  times  daily. 

N  on  anterior  third  of  tongue. 

A  on  tongue  and  beneath  it.    Also  on  floor  of  mouth. 

A  or  plain  in  Y  on  zones  involved. 

Stretching  lips.  See  Cold  Extremities,  also  In- 
ferior Maxilla. 

Stand  behind  patient  and  with  both  hands  covering 
his  lower  jaw  press  firmly,  using  hook  method.  (The 
fingers  as  hooks  instead  of  thumbs  as  when  patient  treats 
himself,  the  thumbs  exerting  a  counter  pressure  on  front 
of  jaw.) 

Mastoid,  tragus  of  ear  and  maxillary  articulation 
should  also  be  treated.  See  Inferior  Maxillary,  also 
Deafness. 

Hook  pressure  on  clavicle  and  top  of  sternum.  See 
Goitre. 

Bracial  Neuritis. 

T  or  H  on  Z  10  to  12  minutes  several  times  daily. 

In  obstinate  cases  treat  O. 

Find  sensitive  areas  on  thigh  corresponding  with 
those  on  arms  and  use  pressure  as  in  Foot.  If  areas 
in  arm  are  not  too  sensitive,  direct  pressure  may  be  made. 


KEY    TO    ZONE   THERAPY.  203 

Draw  anterior  pillars  of  fauces  (affected  side)  for- 
ward with  hook  probe  and  hold  for  several  seconds,  ex- 
erting pressure  on  corresponding  zones  in  P  and  Y. 

Cold  Extremities. 

Scratch  front  and  palm  of  hands  with  E,  E  i  or 
finger  nails  for  5  minutes  or  probe  pressure  in  epiph- 
arynx. 

Rectal  dilatation.  (Stretching  lips  with  fingers,  in- 
serting index  and  middle  fingers  of  both  hands  inside 
lips  and  cheeks  and  stretching  same  in  all  directions,  often 
has  same  effect  as  dilatation  of  rectum.) 

Manipulate  as  in  Foot,  etc. 

Pressure  on  tragus  and  lobe  of  ear.     See  Deafness. 

Conjunctivitis. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3. 
See  Eye. 

Cough. 

Same  as  for  Bronchitis. 

Constipation. 

N  on  posterior  one-third  of  tongue,  8  to  10  minutes. 

Firmly  interlock  hands  for  same  period. 

Pressure  on  posterior  wall  of  pharynx  at  median 
line. 

Patients  become  more  and  more  susceptible  to  pres- 
sure through  practice. 

Stretching,  etc.,  as  in  Cold  Extremities. 

Pressure  with  hooked  thumb  under  chin.  See  In- 
ferior Maxilla. 


204  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Pressure  on  sacrococcygeal  articulation  and  tip  of 
coccyx. 

Dilate  rectum  with  lubricated  cotton  gauze. 
Sponge  when  necessary  as  in  proctitis,  prolapse,  etc. 

Coryza,  (head  colds). 

Interlock  fingers  firmly  for  five  minutes  or  longer. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i  and  2. 

Bite  tongue  firmly  for  several  minutes  at  intervals. 

i  on  hard  palate. 

A  with  or  without  medication.  Saliva  of  the  pa- 
tient, (which  is  practically  the  same  as  the  nasal  secre- 
tion) may  be  used  when  normal  on  A. 

Probe  without  cotton  or  with  medicated  cotton- 
tipped  probe  in  nose,  epipharynx  and  floor  of  mouth. 

See  Sneezing,  also  Hay  Fever.  Pressure  on  ear. 
See  Deafness. 

Deafness. 

Pressure  or  friction  as  required  may  be  applied  at 
any  point  throughout  appropriate  zone  or  zones. 

Bite  hard  from  5  to  10  minutes  on  Zone  Therapy 
"Bite".  See  combination  probe  and  "Bite"  page  181. 

A  pressed  behind  upper  wisdom  tooth  and  well  into 
angle  of  jaw. 

Stretch  soft  palate  with  retractor  or  index  finger. 

T,  H  or  R  on  4  and  5.  In  catarrhal  deafness  4  and 
2.  Firm  pressure  on  IV  and  V  with  E  i  at  3rd  joint 
(palmer  surface)  4  and  5. 

Treat  all  joints  of  appropriate  fingers  as  an  adjunct. 

Pressure  on  4th  and  5th  zones  on  tongue  directly  in 
front  and  to  the  side  of  anterior  pillars,  drawing  the 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  205 

pillar  downward  and  outward  at  an  angle  of  from  85 
to  95  degrees. 

Manipulate  Z  as  in  Foot  frequently  and  O  morning 
and  night. 

R  firmly  pressing  mastoid,  especially  at  tip. 

Fnger  pressing  tragus  of  ear  affected  firmly  into 
aural  canal  from  I  second  (where  relaxation  is  desired) 
to  3  minutes  or  longer,  also  pressure  on  all  cartilage  of 
external  ear.  Pack  tightly  outer  half  of  aural  canals 
with  slightly  moistened  cotton  when  local  or  general  in- 
hibition is  desired. 

Pressure  at  angle  of  the  jaw  and  between  maxillary 
articulation  and  tragus  of  ear  (externally).  Patient 
should  open  and  close  his  mouth  frequently  during 
articulation  treatment,  as  this  is  more  or  less  painful 
unless  he  is  instructed  to  press  very  firmly  with  finger 
and  thumb  tips  (of  side  being  treated)  on  the  arms  or 
the  seat  of  his  chair.  Patients  should  be  instructed  to 
practice  most  of  these  treatments  at  home  twice  daily 
while  under  treatment  and  their  ears  should  be  tested 
frequently  by  an  aurist  familiar  with  Zone  Therapy. 

Diarrhea. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

Wide  abdominal  belt  or  bandage.     Strap  tightly. 

Ear. 

Same  as  for  Deafness. 

Enteralgia. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 
N  on  tongue. 


206  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Epilepsy. 

Dilatation  for  8  to  10  minutes  daily  of  mouth,  nos- 
trils, external  aural  canals  (pack  outer  half  of  canal 
tightly  with  cotton  for  a  few  minutes),  rectum,  etc. 

Sometimes  dilatation  of  vagina  or  urethra  is  neces- 
sary. Removal  of  nasal  obstructions,  especially  when 
found  in  middle  meatus. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z  or  O. 

Epistaxis. 

Press  2  against  upper  lip  under  nose. 
H  on  i  and  2  of  involved  side. 
It  may  be  necessary  when  bleeding  involves  other 
zones  to  use  T  and  H  on  O  and  Z. 

Firm  pressure  on  tragus  of  ear.     See  Deafness. 

Esophagus,  (irritation  or  erosion). 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  and  I,  II  and  III  when 
necessary. 

i  on  middle  of  hard  palate. 

N  on  tongue. 

Therapy  web  clamp  or  pressure  with  R  between  I, 
2  and  3. 

Hook  pressures  on  chin  and  sternum. 

Eye. 

Pressure  with  probe  or  fingers  on  muco-cutaneous 
junctions  in  nostrils  on  side  of  affected  .eye  over  2nd 
division  of  the  ophthalmic  nerve. 

To  improve  lachrymal  drainage  in  cases  of  con- 
tracted or  hypertrophied  inferior  turbinates  pass  a 
nasal  applicator  between  the  inferior  turbinates  and 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  207 

antral  wall,  and  press  the  anterior  half  of  the  turbinate 
firmly  towards  the  median  line  of  the  nostril  and  hold 
for  several  seconds.  See  Cross  Zones.  See  Hay  Fever. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  and  I,  II  and  III  when 
necessary. 

Pressure  on  bony  prominences  surrounding  eye. 

Pressures  on  tragus,  etc.     See  Deafness. 

Eustachian  tube. 

T,  H  or  R  on  2,  3  and  4  or  II,  III  and  IV  or  on 
both  ringers  and  toes  when  necessary.  Pressure  on 
tragus  of  ear,  etc.  See  Deafness. 

Have  patient  swallow  frequently  during  this  treat- 
ment. 

Falling  hair. 

Scratch  all  surfaces  of  forearms  and  hands  with  E 
or  E  i,  10  to  15  minutes  daily. 

Rub  finger  and  thumb  nails  together  briskly  several 
times  daily  for  two  or  three  minutes. 

Foot-Knee-Hip. 

T,  H,  E  i  on  O  and  Z. 

The  foot  and  ankle  correspond  with  the  hand  and 
wrist  on  the  same  side  of  the  body. 

The  knee  corresponds  with  the  elbow  and  the  hip 
corresponds  with  the  shoulder  of  the  same  side. 

Firm  manipulation  of  the  joints  of  \he  thumbs,  fin- 
gers, hand,  elbow  and  shoulder  affect  p'tasantly  the  cor- 
responding joints  of  the  lower  extremity. 

Pull,  flex,  extend  and  rotate  par's  under  pressure, 
retaining  the  varied  positions  for  several  seconds  or 


208  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

minutes  if  necessary.  After  a  treatment  of  the  hand 
and  wrist  compare  it  with  the  other  hand  and  wrist  for 
lightness,  flexibility,  etc.,  and  then  note  corresponding 
differences  in  the  feet.  It  may  take  a  few  minutes  to 
make  this  apparent,  but  the  connection  between  hand 
and  foot  on  the  same  side  of  the  body  will  surely  be 
appreciated. 

The  entire  zones  thus  treated  are  often  relieved  of 
irritation,  congestion,  etc.,  so  that  when  both  upper  ex- 
tremities have  been  treated  the  patient  is  usually  com- 
pletely relaxed.  The  lower  extremities  may  be  treated 
similarly  when  necessary.  If,  because  of  an  injury  it  is 
quite  impossible  to  treat  directly  the  affected  extremity, 
as  for  instance  a  right  foot,  the  right  hand  should  be 
appropriately  manipulated  before  attempting  to  treat  the 
foot. 

If  pain  exists  in  one  section  of  the  upper  extremity, 
choose  the  corresponding  section  of  the  lower  extremity 
at  a  point  which  is  identical  with  the  painful  part  on 
same  side,  and  exert  firm  pressure  with  finger  tips.  If 
the  above  treatment  or  pressure  on  or  between  ap- 
propriate fingers  or  toes  does  not  relieve  the  pain,  rotate 
the  joints  or  between  the  joints  outward  for  pain  on 
inner  side  or  front  of  extremity  and  hold  in  that  posi- 
tion for  several  minutes.  Rotate  inward  and  hold  as 
above  for  pain  on  outer  side  of  extremities.  This  ap- 
plies to  all  the  joints  and  surfaces  between  all  joints 
throughout  the  body. 

Gall  Bladder. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i,  2,  3  and  I,  II,  III. 

R  on  web  between  i  and  2. 

H  can  be  pushed  into  web  and  thus  exert  pressure 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  209 

there.  Hook  pressures  on  right  side  of  jaw,  etc.  See 
Inferior  Maxilla  and  Deafness. 

Hook  pressure  on  clavicle  and  ibrim  of  pelvis  in 
zones  2,  3  and  4. 

Pressure  on  ribs  effective  in  same  zones. 

Goitre. 

A  passed  through  nostril  to  epipharynx  and  firm 
pressure  should  be  directed  downward.  When  right 
spot  is  reached  a  sensation  will  be  felt  in  the  thyroid 
gland. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i,  2,  3  and  I,  II  and  III. 

If  zone  one  only  be  involved  treat  it  by  firm  pres- 
sure of  zone  one  in  epipharynx.  If  all  zones  are  involved 
treat  through  firm  pressure  on  all  zones  in  epipharynx. 
Metal  or  cotton  tipped  medicated  probes  may  be  used. 

Pressure  on  lower  jaw.  See  Inferior  Maxilla  and 
Deafness. 

Hook  pressure  with  Angers. 

Pressure  on  clavicle  (collar  bone,  all  surfaces)  and 
top  of  sternum  (breast  bone)  and  counteracting  pressure 
with  thumbs  in  appropriate  zones  beneath  goitre. 

Pressure  on  bony  prominences  surrounding  eye. 

H  on  Z  or  even  on  O  when  all  zones  are  affected 
from  5  to  20  minutes. 

Hay  Fever. 

Press  upper  lip  firmly  against  teeth  with  2. 
i   on  hard  palate  directly  under  nose  from  4  to  8 
minutes. 
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210  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

N  on  anterior  one-half  of  tongue  several  times  daily. 
A  on  appropriate  zones  in  Y  with  or  without  cotton. 
Bite  tongue. 

H  oh  i  and  2  (both  hands). 

Hook  pressure,  etc.  See  Inferior  Maxillary  also 
Deafness. 

Dilatations  —  See  Epilepsy. 

If  the  nasal  secretion  is  acid,  a  cotton-wound  ap- 
plicator may  be  moistened  with  an  alkaline  solution  to 
good  effect  —  if  alkaline  use  acid.  In  either  case  use 
A  without  cotton. 

The  surgeon  should  never  hesitate  to  operate  at  the 
height  of  an  attack,  when  surgery  is  indicated. 

Headache  —  Pressure  1  to  5  minutes. 

(a)     Frontal. 

i.     Center-i  or  A  just  back  of  alveolar  process 

in  median  line.    2.     Right  side-i  or  A  just 

back  of  alveolar  process  near  ist  bicuspid. 

3.     Left  side-i  or  A  just  back  of  alveolar 

process  near  ist  bicuspid. 

Firm  pressure  at  wrist  front  (junction  of 

hand  and  wrist). 

H  on  fingers  to  correspond  with  affected 

zones  in  head. 

E  i  on  appropriate  sections  of  extremities. 

If    pus    is  present,  as  in  abscessed  frontal 

sinus,   pain   will   return   when   pressure   is 
.  removed. 
(1))     Vertex  i  or  A  in  center  of  hard  palate. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  211 

(c)  Occipital. 

1.  Center- 1  or  A  on  posterior  edge  of  hard 
palate  in  median  line. 

2.  Right  side-i  or  A  on  posterior  edge  of  hard 
palate  near  right  3rd  molar  tooth. 

3.  Left  side-Pressure  near  left  3rd  molar  as 
on  right. 

Firm  pressure  with  E  I  at  junction  of  hand 
and  wrist  (palmer  surface). 
If  constipated,  bowels  should  be  thoroughly 
evacuated. 

Overcome  pressures  in  middle  meatus  (one 
or  both  sides)   through  operation  when 
necessary. 

(d)  General. 

E  i  on  skull  above  or  below  seat  of  pain. 
T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  of  each  hand. 
Pressures  —  See  Deafness. 

Heart. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2,  3  and  4  of  left  hand  and  i  and  2 
of  right  and  corresponding  toes. 

Pressure  on  any  resistant  section  of  above  zones 
where  inhibition  is  desired.  To  stimulate,  the  rapid 
stroke  is  best. 

Hemorrhoids. 

Same  as  for  Constipation. 

Hiccough. 

Z  firmly  interlocked. 

Pull  tongue  out  full  length  and  hold  it  firmly  from 
I  to  3  minutes  or  longer. 


212  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

N  on  middle  of  tongue. 

Firm  pressure  on  tragus  of  ears. 

Pressure  on  tips  of  Z. 

Hysteria. 

Same  as  for  Nervousness. 
Dilatation  as  in  Epilepsy. 

Inferior  Maxilla. 

See  Toothache. 

Intestines. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  O  or  Z  or  both. 
N  in  P  and  A  in  Y  when  necessary. 
Hook  pressure.     See  Inferior  Maxillary. 
Pressures   over    appropriate    zones   throughout   ab- 
domen. 

Insomnia. 

Firmly  interlock  finger  for  10  minutes. 
Stroke    forearms  —  all    surfaces  —  with   E,   E  i    or 
finger  nails,  5  to  10  minutes. 

Press  firmly  with  i  and  2  above  bridge  of  nose. 

Knee. 

T,  H,  E  i  on  R  or  O  or  elbow  of  same  side.     See 
Foot,  etc. 

Labor. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

R,  E  i  on  metatarso-phylangeal  joints. 

Dr.  White's  analgesic  discs.    Pages  61  and  62. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  213 

Clinch  teeth  or  bite  firmly  back  of  metal  comb  or 
Therapy  "Bite." 

N  on  tongue. 

Hook  pressure  on  chin  and  to  angle  of  jaw.  See 
Inferior  Maxilla. 

Lachrymal  Duct  —  See  Eye. 

Laryngitis. 

Pull  tongue  and  work  it  slowly  from  side  to  side. 

N  on  centre  of  tongue. 

A  under  tongue,  floor  of  mouth  and  Y. 

H  on  i  and  2. 

Hook  pressures.  See  Inferior  Maxillary.  Also 
Deafness. 

Moderate  pressure  and  manipulation  of  hyoid  bone, 
thyroid  and  cricoid  cartilage. 

Absolute  nasal  breathing.     Plaster  mouth  guard. 

Liver. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both  of  right  side  and  I, 
II  and  i,  2  of  left  side. 

N  on  middle  third  of  tongue. 

Locomotor  Ataxia. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

Treat  pain  in  local  zone. 

N  on  tongue. 

Dilatation  as  in  Epilepsy. 

Pressure  on  anterior  pillars  of  fauces. 


214  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Loss  of  Voice. 

Take  napkin  and  grasp  tongue,  pulling  it  gently  but 
firmly  in  all  directions. 

2  or  A  under  tongue. 

N  on  middle  of  tongue. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i  and  2. 

Hook  pressure  on  chin.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Trichloracetic  acid  (strong)  lightly  applied  over 
floor  of  mouth,  etc. 

See  Laryngitis. 

Lumbago. 

Deep  pressure  of  E  i  on  palmer  surface  of  Z  and 
soles  of  feet  from  3  to  20  minutes.  Dr.  White's  anal- 
gesics act  admirably  here. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z  and  O. 

A  firmly  pressed  on  appropriate  zones  on  posterior 
wall  of  pharynx. 

E  i  on  wrist.  The  painful  sections  on  wrist  and 
finger  joints  when  firm  pressure  is  exerted  will  be  found 
in  the  same  zone  or  zones  as  pain  in  back.  These  are 
the  spots  to  attack,  and  pressure  should  be  continued 
until  pain  in  back  is  overcome. 

Pressure  on  anterior  surface  of  cervical  vertebra 
through  pharynx,  attacking  pain  in  centre  of  back 
through  median  pressure,  pain  in  the  left  of  the  back  to 
the  left  of  the  median  line,  and  pain  in  the  right  of  the 
back  to  the  right  of  the  median  line,  in  zone  or  zones 
affected.  Anterior  surfaces  of  the  upper  dorsal  vertebra 
may  be  treated  with  a  long  curved  applicator  through 
pharynx  and  esophagus,  and  the  lumbar  vertebra  may 
be  reached  through  pressures  on  the  pelvis. 


KEY    TO    ZONE   THERAPY.  215 

Galvano  cautery  to  posterior  margins  of  lower  gums. 

If  vibrator  is  used  begin  with  tips  of  Z  and  if  nec- 
essary O. 

E  i  to  affected  part  or  above  or  below  it. 

Hook  pressure  on  lower  jaw  in  zones  affected.  See 
Inferior  Maxilla. 

Pressures  may  be  made  over  any  resistant  sections 
of  posterior  half  of  appropriate  zone  or  zones. 

Sensitive  areas  over  posterior  surface  of  spine  may 
often  be  treated  even  more  satisfactorily  through  pres- 
sure than  through  percussion  or  manipulation. 

Lungs. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

A  on  P  and  Y,  in  appropriate  zones. 

N  on  floor  of  mouth  and  all  surfaces  of  tongue, 
medicate  if  necessary. 

Hook  pressures.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Pressures  on  mastoid,  pinna  of  ear  on  side  affected. 
See  Deafness. 

Pressures  on  sternum,  clavicles,  ribs  and  scapulae  in 
appropriate  zones. 

Lymphatic  Glands. 

Treat  according  to  zone.     Find  cause  of  infection 
and  then  treat  condition  through  appropriate  zones. 
See  Goitre. 

Menses. 

(a)     Menopause. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

N  on  tongue. 


216  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

(b)  Menorrhagia. 

Gentle  stroking  on  front  of  hands  with  E  or  E  i. 

(c)  Dysmenorrhea. 

Pressure  on  both  sides  of  sacrococcygeal  artic- 
ulation 

Pressure  on  pubic  bone  just  over  uterus. 
N  on  posterior  one-third  of  tongue  for  2  min- 
utes or  more. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  of  each  side. 
Interlock  fingers. 

A,  2  or  3  on  appropriate  zones  on  posterior  wall 
of  pharynx. 

R  H  or  web  clamps  between  thumbs  and  index 
fingers  and  index  and  middle  fingers. 
Hook  pressure  on  chin.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

(d)  Amenorrhea. 

N   on   middle   third   of   tongue   from   3   to    15 
minutes. 

Migraine. 

See  treatment  for  Headache. 

Morning  Sickness. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i  and  2  of  each  side  and  webs 

between. 
T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i  and  2. 

Mumps 

See  Parotitis. 

Nc  sal  Catarrh. 

Be  certain  your  patient  breathes  at  all  times  through 
the  nose. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  217 

Cartilaginous  and  boney  obstructions  and  hypertro- 
phies should  be  removed  surgically.  For  congestion, 
etc.,  patient  should  be  taught  how  to  use  the  metal  appli- 
cator with  or  without  medication. 

The  plaster  mouth  guard  recommended  originally  by 
me  should  be  worn  when  necessary.  See  Cross  Zones 
from  nostrils,  Fig.  30. 

Nervousness. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

Strongly  interlock  fingers. 

Clinch  fists  and  set  jaws. 

Patient  should  brush  the  entire  body  from  tips  of 
fingers  to  tips  of  toes  for  five  minutes,  night  and  morn- 
ing with  E  or  E  i. 

See  Foot,  etc. 

N  eurasthenia. 

See  Nervousness. 

Neuralgia. 

Treat  local  zone  affected. 

Teeth  and  nose  should  be  carefully  examined  for 
infections  and  undue  pressure,  especially  for  pressure 
due  to  hypertrophies  in  middle  meatus  of  side  involved. 

H  on  thumbs,  fingers  or  toes  of  zones  involved. 

Press  tragus  on  side  involved,  or  pack  the  outer 
third  of  aural  canal  with  tightly  moistened  cotton. 

See  Deafness. 


218  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Numbness  of  Extremities. 

Stimulate  affected  part  with  E,  E  i  or  finger  nails 
or  with  pointed  instrument  for  two  or  three  minutes  a 
few  times  daily.  Therapy  Zones  if  worn  too  long  will 
sometimes  cause  numbness.  This  should  be  guarded 
against. 

See  Therapy  Zones,  page  198. 

Ovaries,  congestion  of,  neuralgia. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 
Hook  pressures  on  jaw;  also  on  pubic  bones  when 
necessary. 

Optic  Neuritis. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  also  corresponding  toes. 
i  on  inferior  dental  nerve  at  exit. 
Pressures  on  orbit. 

Paralysis  Agitans. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both  for  5  minutes,  sev- 
eral times  daily. 

Firmly  interlock  fingers  from  10  to  12  minutes. 

Dilatations  as  in  Epilepsy. 

Examine  teeth.  Also  body  generally  for  sensitive 
spots. 

Manipulations  and  pressure  on  extremities.  See 
Foot,  etc. 

Where  toes  contract  exert  pressure  for  a  few  min- 
utes with  comb  across  front  of  hand  and  fingers  on 
affected  side,  or  step  firmly  on  tees  of  affected  foot  and 
continue  pressure  from  3  to  5  minutes. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  219 

Paralysis. 

Treat  zones  involved  through  extremities  with  H 
and  E  I.  Also  mouth,  nose,  etc. 

Dilatations  as  above. 

See  Foot,  etc.,  also  Deafness. 

Dr.  White's  Comb  Electrode,  manufactured  by  the 
Ultima  Physical  Appliance  Company  of  Chicago,  is  most 
helpful  in  all  forms  of  paralysis,  and  may  be  applied 
to  zones  individually  or  collectively  whenever  patholog- 
ical changes  from  any  cause  are  not  benefited  by 
ordinary  pressures. 

Parotitis. 

T,  H  or  R  on  2,  3  and  4  or  corresponding  toes. 

Pressure  with  I  inside  of  cheek  opposite  molar 
teeth  counteracting  pressure  on  outside  of  cheek  with  2. 
Pressure  on  second  and  third  fingers  of  affected  side 
usually  sufficient. 

Hook  pressure  on  jaw  beneath  parotid  gland  when 
necessary. 

See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Peritonsillar  abscess. 

See  Whooping  Cough ;  also  Sore  Throat. 

Pleurodynia. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 
N  on  tongue. 

Placenta  —  To  facilitate  expulsion. 

Stroke  front  of  hands  with  E  or  E  i  or  finger  nails 


220  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Pneumonia. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 
N  on  tongue. 

A  on  appropriate  zones  of  P  and  Y  with  and  with- 
out medication. 

Hook  pressures,  dilatations,  etc. 

See  Inferior  Maxillary  and  Deafness;  also  Lungs. 

Prostate. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

N  on  tongue. 

A  as  in  Pneumonia. 

Hook  pressure  on  chin.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Pressure  on  pubic  bones. 

Presbyopia. 

H  on  2. 

Quinsy. 

See  Peritonsillar  abscess. 

Rectum,  proctitis,  prolopse,  etc. 

See  treatment  for  Hemmorrhoids. 

Relaxation. 

Interlock  fingers. 

Firm    pressure    on    finger   and    thumb    tips,    either 
together,  or  on  arms  or  seat  of  chair. 
Clinch  teeth  or  bite  -piece  of  metal. 
Stretching  lips.     See  Cold  Extremities. 
See  Foot,  etc.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  221 

Rheumatism. 

Treat  zones  involved.  Zone  Therapy  will  aid  in 
locating  the  infection,  and  then  assist  in  its  removal. 

Dilations.  See  Cold  Extremities.  See  Foot,  etc. 
See  Sciatica.  See  Lumbago.  See  Brachial  Neuritis. 

Sciatica. 

Find  infection  in  mouth  or  elsewhere.  (3rd  molar 
teeth  often  responsible).  You  will  find  sensitive  area 
on  hand  at  junction  of  hand  and  wrist  (palmer  surface), 
tightly  press  with  E  I  and  place  H  on  appropriate  fingers 
or  if  the  sensitive  area  corresponds  with  web  between 
fingers  press  with  E  i  or  i  and  2  or  use  therapy  web 
clamp.  Fnd  sensitive  area  on  arm  of  side  involved  and 
exert  pressure  with  E  i  or  Z.  See  Foot,  etc. 

Scratch  i,  2  and  web  between  with  E  or  E  i. 

Sea  Sickness,  Car  Nausea,  Vomiting  of  Pregnancy. 

Stroke  hands  (front)  and  arms  with  E  i  or  finger 
nails. 

Interlock  fingers. 

Twelve  inch  bandage  or  belt  tightly  about  waist. 

Sneezing. 

Firmly  press  below  inner  canthus  on  side  of  nostril 
involved.  Bilateral  pressure  when  both  nostrils  are  in- 
volved. 

Press  tragus  of  ear  on  side  involved.  Both  sides 
when  necessary. 

Press  i  against  alveolar  process  under  nose  or  press 
firmly  on  bridge  of  the  nose  and  under  canthus  as  above. 

Set  jaws. 


222  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Sore  Throat. 

H  on  appropriate  fingers  and  thumbs.  Attack 
epipharynx  as  in  Bronchitis.  See  Whooping  Cough. 

Pressure  on  tragus  (See  Tinnitus)  lobe  and  mastoid 
of  ear.  Hook  pressure.  See  Deafness. 

Pressure  with  comb  over  sensitive  areas  of  front 
and  palmer  surfaces  of  hands. 

Following  tonsillotomy  or  tonsillectomy,  firm  pres- 
sure from  2  to  10  minutes  with  comb  across  front  of 
hand  and  wrist  at  junction  of  same  will  relieve  pain  in 
the  throat  and  produce  relaxation  of  jaws.  Sensitive 
areas  on  fingers  and  thumbs  corresponding  with  those 
at  wrist  may  also  be  treated.  Treat  palmer  surfaces 
similarly  when  posterior  sections  of  zones  are  involved. 
The  feet  may  be  treated  similarly  over  corresponding 
areas. 

Stomach. 

(a)  Motor  Insufficiency. 

Scratch  i,  2  and  web  between  with  E  or  E  i. 
T,  H  or  R  on  i  and  2. 

(b)  Gastric  ulcer. 

Find  sensitive  area  on  front  of  wrist  or  cor- 
responding section  of  foot  (junction  of  hand 
and  wrist)  and  press  firmly.  If  acutely  sensi- 
tive over  stomach  area  ulcerations  may  be 
stated  to  be  on  anterior  wall  of  stomach.  If 
the  front  of  the  wrist  has  no  such  painful 
area  try  the  palmer  surface  in  corresponding 
location.  If  sensitive,  ulceration  is  almost 
certain  to  be  found  on  posterior  wall  of  stomach. 
Continue  pressure  over  this  area  until  pain 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  223 

disappears.  Work  on  corresponding  section  of 
foot  if  necessary. 

H  or  E  i  on  appropriate  fingers,  from  3  to  15 
minutes  for  acute  pain  will  also  be  elicited  on 
spot  directly  below  painful  spot  on  wrist,  i.  e., 
joints  of  appropriate  thumb  and  fingers. 

(c)  Indigestion. 
Same  as  for  pain. 

(d)  Pain. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  i,  2,  3,  4  and  webs  between. 

(e)  Vomiting. 

Scratch   i,  2   (left)    and   i,  2,  3    (right)    and 

webs  between  with  E  or  E  i  and  corresponding 

sections  of  foot. 

It  is  sometimes  necessary  to  treat  Z,  O  and 

webs. 

(f)  Tympanites. 
Same  as  for  Pain. 

Testes. 

T,  H,  E  i  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 
N  on  tongue. 

Pressure  on  all  surfaces  of  chin ;  also  on  pubic  bones 
See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Tic-douloureux. 

See  Neuralgia. 

"Tickling  Throat." 

See  Bronchitis;  also  Sore  Throat. 


224  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Tinnitus  Aurium. 

Firm  pressure  with  N  on  middle  third  of  tongue 
from  5  to  8  minutes. 

Traction  of  palate. 

Raise  nail  of  4  or  IV  at  centre. 

Forward  pressure  on  tragus  with  fingers  at  intervals 
of  2  or  3  seconds  or  longer  for  15  seconds  or  more. 

Hook  pressures.  See  Inferior  Maxillary;  also 
Deafness. 

Tonsillotomy  or  Tonsillectomy. 

See  Sore  Throat. 

Toothache  and  Anaesthesia  for  Extractions. 

(a)  Superior  Maxilla. 

R  or  i  on  posterior  palatine  nerve  affects  last 
4  teeth. 

R  or  i  on  anterior  palatine  nerve  affects  in- 
cisors. 

Press  lip  directly  over  tooth. 
Press  over  roots  with  R. 

T,  H  or  R  on   i    for  incisors  and,,  as  a  rule, 
the  cuspid. 

T,  H  or  R  on  2  for  the  bicuspids. 
T,  H  or  R  on  3  for  the  first  two  molars. 
T,  H  or  R  on  4  for  the  third  molar. 
T,  H  or  R  on  4  and  5  is  sometimes  necessary 
for  the  third  molar. 

(b)  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Press  lip  or  cheek  of  the  patient  against  gum 
beneath  appropriate  teeth. 
Press  beneath  roots  with  R. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  225 

i  on  inferior  dental  and  lingual  nerve  often  produces 
anaesthesia  of  lateral  half  of  mandible. 
Pressure  with  R  on  lower  jaw  (externally)  in 
individual  zones  is  most  advantageous.  Every 
zone  in  the  body  may  be  covered  in  its  entirety 
in  this  manner.  The  thumb  should  be  firmly 
hooked  beneath  the  under  surface  of  the  chin 
or  other  appropriate  sections  of  the  jaw  when 
individual  posterior  sections  of  zones  are  to  be 
treated,  the  fingers  exerting  a  counter  pressure 
on  the  lower  outer  surface  when  both  sections 
of  zones  are  to  be  treated.  Any  section  of  the 
lower  jaw,  including  the  angles  and  maxillary 
articulations  may  be  treated  similarly. 
Patient  should  firmly  press  appropriate  finger 
and  thumb  tips  on  arms  of  the  operating  chair 
to  counteract  any  pain  that  may  be  excited  dur- 
ing treatment. 

Pack  tightly  outer  half  of  auditory  canals  with 
slightly    moistened    absorbent    cotton    to    de- 
sensitize pain  in  jaws. 
Hook  pressure.     See  Deafness. 

Torticollis. 

See  Lumbago. 

Tumors. 

Treat  zones  affected  from  jaws,  P  and  Y. 

Dilatations  as  above. 

H  on  appropriate  fingers  and  toes. 

E  i  on  appropriate  fingers  and  toes. 


226  KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY. 

Tuberculosis-  Pulmonary . 

T,  H,  E  or  R  on  Z,  O  or  both. 

N  on  tongue. 

E  i  on  extremities. 

A  on  appropriate  zones  of  P  and  Y  with  or  with- 
out medication. 

Stroke  the  entire  body  briskly  for  five  minutes  with 
E  twice  or  three  times  daily.  See  Lungs. 

Hook  pressures.  See  Inferior  Maxilla,  also  Deaf- 
ness. 

Uterus. 

Tumors  of. 

A  or  N  on  floor  of  mouth  under  tongue. 

T,  H  or  R  on  i,  2  and  3  of  each  hand. 

See  Menses. 

Hook  pressure  on  chin.     See  Inferior  Maxilla. 

Whooping  Cough. 

Patient  is  usually  conscious  of  an  irritation  in 
throat.  If  zone  one  on  left  side  of  neck  is  effected  attack 
zone  one  in  epipharynx.  If  the  irritation  is  elsewhere, 
attack  zone  indicated  through  epipharynx.  Among  in- 
fants the  irritation  is  usually  found  in  zones  one  or  two, 
or  both,  and  these  zones  should  be  treated  through  the 
epipharynx.  As  a  rule,  we  use  medicated  probe  (See 
"Zone  Therapy").  But  often  only  the  probe  is  neces- 
sary. Pressure  should  be  continued  for  about  3  minutes, 
as  in  Asthma. 

Whooping  Cough  is  usually  overcome  in  one  treat- 
ment seldom  are  more  than  three  treatments  required. 


KEY    TO    ZONE    THERAPY.  227 

Writer's  Cramp. 

E  i  on  fronts,  backs  and  tips  of  Z  or  O 

N  on  tongue. 

Draw  anterior  pillar  of  fauces  on  affected  side  for- 
ward with  hook  probe  and  hold  for  several  seconds. 
Then  press  same  pillar  inward  and  teach  patient  to  do 
the  latter  when  necessary. 

Wry  Neck. 

See  Lumbago. 


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